Great Business Minds João Marques Lima

Welcome to another episode of the Great Business Minds podcast, the definitive show for the business of digital infrastructure.

Welcome to another episode of the Great Business Minds podcast, the definitive show for the business of digital infrastructure.
 
GBM is brought to you by Preiskel & Co, a leading award-winning City of London law firm, internationally recognised for its expertise in the digital infrastructure industry and the telecoms and tech sector work more broadly. Wherever your legal or regulatory needs are (including outer space) Preiskel & Co LLP can support you, so do feel free to reach out to them at www.preiskel.com
 
In this episode, we are joined by someone whose focus will change data centre construction and how mega projects are built.
 
A Fellow of Keble College, Dr Atif Ansar is a Senior Teaching Fellow on the Master of Sciences in Major Programme Management and the Australian Major Projects Leadership Academy (AMPLA). He is the Founding Director of the Oxford Programme on the Sustainable Future of Capital-Intensive Industries, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.
 
Atif is also the Executive Chairman of Foresight Works – an Oxford based technology firm building next-gen software for the world’s megaprojects.
 
He has been at the University of Oxford since 2006 and until 2010, he undertook his DPhil (PhD), at Brasenose College, with the prestigious Clarendon Scholarship from Oxford University Press.
 
Atif was a post-doctoral research fellow at the BT Centre for Major Programme Management at Saïd Business School from 2010.
 
From 2015 until 2020, Atif was Programme Director of the MSc in Major Programme Management and continues to be one of the senior teaching fellows on the course’s faculty.
 
Atif also teaches on the UK and Australian Governments Major Projects Leadership Academy.
 
In 2018, Atif began an appointment as a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Global Projects Center and a Visiting Professorship at Tsinghua University.
 
He previously undertook his bachelor’s degree at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where he majored in philosophy, politics, and economics.
 
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Welcome to another episode of the Great Business Minds podcast, the definitive show for the business of digital infrastructure.