Alan Irwin is a Professor in the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School (CBS). He was also the Dean of Research at CBS from 2007-14. Previously, he has held positions at the University of Liverpool, Brunel University and the University of Manchester.
His PhD is from the (former) Department of Science and Technology Policy at the University of Manchester. Alan Irwin has chaired the UK BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) Strategy Panel on ‘Bioscience for Society’. Currently, he is a member of the Strategy Advisory Board for the UK Global Food Security Programme.
In 2009, Alan Irwin was awarded the David Edge prize for best paper in science and technology studies. He was part of the group which received the John Ziman prize in 2014 for the ESF report Science in Society: caring for our futures in turbulent times (chaired by Ulrike Felt). He has published over several years on issues of scientific governance, risk and decision-making, and science-public relations.