Freddie Quek is Research Associate at Henley Business School, Tech Leader, Advisor and NED. Previously he was CTO at Times Higher Education responsible for data-driven products like the World Universities Rankings and SDG Impact Dashboard providing insights into universities’ impact in delivering the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. A disruptive, networked and agile leader, he thrives in challenging environments and champions team successes. He is a highly experienced multiple award-winning digital leader with a proven track record in higher education, financial services, automotive, publishing, loyalty, insurance and travel industries, and has worked for RELX, Wiley, Solera as well as scaleups and startups. He helped transformed the publishing industry to digital pioneering the use of NoSQL technologies and achieving large scale agile implementations. He took on additional responsibilities to “deal with the unexpected” in executing strategic yet unplanned initiatives to handle merger integrations, partnerships and competitive threats. His team received the IT Project Team of the Year award at the UK IT Industry Awards. He received three Wiley President's Award in 4 years, a Pacesetter Award for delivering a ground-breaking multi-million licensing deal, and MarkLogic’s Customer Excellence award for achieving "Mission Impossible" with its NoSQL technology. Acknowledged as a top UK technology leader by Computer Weekly and CIO100, Freddie's pandemic initiatives included launching MVPs such as THE Student and THE Campus, and outside work starting the #joiningthedots initiative to address digital inclusion becoming special advisor and community board member of the Digital Poverty Alliance, and chairing the BCS Digital Divide Specialist Group. He also co-founded TechLinkUkraine helping displaced Ukrainian tech professionals. Freddie also serves on the Boards at University of Bristol, eLife, BCS Influence Board and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has Master of Science degrees from the London School of Economics and Henley Business School, and is an alumnus of Oxford University. He is a Fellow of BCS, judge for the UK IT Industry, Women in IT and CIO 100 awards, and researcher pursuing a Doctorate of Business Administration. Freddie is passionate about advancing the role of technology leaders in organisations to deal with balancing the needs of running and changing the business at the same time and leveraging technology for societal good.