Professor at Middlesex University

Fergus Lyon is a Professor of Enterprise and Organisations at Middlesex University (UK) and the Deputy Director of the ESRC Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity. He has completed a wealth of research on education and enterprise and has over 150 publications.

In 2007 he was seconded to the Prime Ministers' Strategy Unit (Health team) in the Cabinet Office. He was also the social enterprise lead on the £10m Third Sector Research Centre and has been a trustee/director of a number of social enterprises related to preschool education.