Dr Stephen Robert Lile is a Strategy and International Business Fellow and an Academic Supervisor at Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS), and a technology and science investor with 25 years’ experience in founding science and technology companies. He holds an MBA from CJBS and a PhD in engineering from the University of Cambridge’s Institute for Manufacturing. He is a peer reviewed scholar in Disruptive Innovation Theory and an active published writer as a paid contributor to The Hill and co-author of Organized Science Denial (Oxford University Press, 2025).