Alasdair Reid, policy director of the Brussels based European Future Innovation System Centre, has over 25 years’ experience in designing, implementing and evaluating research and innovation (R&I) policies. He has advised the European Commission, the OECD, the World Bank, the Nordic Council of Ministers, UNECE, national and regional governments and agencies throughout the EU and in third countries.  In the area of research infrastructures (RIs), Alasdair has worked in the framework of ESFRI, on the development of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and since 2011 has overseen over €300m in investments to RIs in the framework of the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF).  During 2022, he is the lead author of an assessment panel of the 28 Greek National RIs in the framework of the Horizon Europe Policy Support Facility.  From 2018 to 2020, he was co-ordinator of the RI-PATHS project on socio-economic impact assessment of RIs and he co-authored several publications on the socio-economic impact of RIs.  In 2019, he was a member of the ESFRI working group on key performance indicators and contributed to the ESFRI publication on this topic.  In 2020, he was team member for a study on the societal benefits of the European Southern Observatory.

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