Lesley Gavin joined British Telecoms Chief Technology Office in 2004. Her role as a Futurologist in Strategic Research involves identifying social, economic and technology trends, identifying new market opportunities for new technologies and contributing to investment decisions for the company’s strategic research programme.
Lesley started her career as an architect working for Denys Lasdun then Hurley Robertson. She then went on to work as a lecturer at the Bartlett Graduate School, where she directed the graduate and doctorate programme in Virtual Environments. Her research was predominantly in distributed and collaborative working environments and in pervasive IT. In 1999 she founded her own company focused on delivering data visualisation solutions for derivatives and equity traders. This company grew to become an international entity with offices in London, Chicago and New York. The company and was sold in 2003.
Since then, Lesley has continued to be an adviser to the European Commission on their $3.5Billion Information Society investment programme, where she currently chairs a task force in ICT in Energy Efficiency. She also continues to be a mentor in the Global Social Ventures Competition. Lesley has also consulted to a number of growing companies in the Telecoms and IT sectors in the UK, Europe and India. She is a Fellow of the RSA, and a Fellow of the British Computer Society. In 2005 she was shortlisted for the British Industry’s (CBI) First Women Awards. Lesley has also been a committee member for the International Astronautical Federation (IAF)
