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Professor Susan Greenfield is Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford. She is one of the best-known scientists in the UK.

In 1997 she was awarded an Honorary DSc by Oxford Brookes University, and has received Honorary DSc degrees, in 1998, from the University of St Andrew's and Exeter University. She became Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1998.

Susan Greenfield is a Trustee of the Science Museum and also makes contributions to the communication of science in the media. In 1994 she was the first woman to give the Royal Institution Christmas lectures and has subsequently made a wide range of broadcasts on TV and radio, as well as appearing as the scientist in a variety of interviews and pieces, such as "Visionaries" in Tomorrow's World and "Innovations" on BBC Breakfast TV. She has also participated in more general programmes such as "Start the Week", "Any Questions", "Desert Island Discs" and "Question Time". She made a series of 4 half hour programmes for BBC Radio 4 on drugs and undertook a major six part series on the brain and mind broadcast on BBC2.

In 1995 she was elected to the Gresham Chair of Physic, which entails giving six public lectures a year in the City of London.

Her books include “The Human Brain: A Guided Tour” (1997), “The Private Life of the Brain” (2000), and “Tomorrow’s People: How 21st Century Technology Is Changing the Way We Think and Feel” (2003) and “‘ID’ - The Quest for Identity”. She has spun off four companies from her research, made a diverse contribution to print and broadcast media, and led a Government report on “Women In Science”. She has received 29 Honorary Degrees, Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians (2000), a non-political Life Peerage (2001) as well as the Ordre National de la Legion d’Honneur (2003). In 2006 she was installed as Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University and voted `Honorary Australian of the Year’. In 2007 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

She was general editor in 1996 for "The Human Mind Explained" (Cassell) and authored The Human Brain: A Giuded Tour which was published as paperback and which in both editions, reached the best seller list. In addition, she has written a fortnightly column for The Independent on Sunday on aspects of science, as well as a more occasional column on education for The Independent "The View From Here". She also makes routine contributions to The Times, The Times Higher Education Supplement and The Telegraph.

Susan Greenfield is an outstanding keynote speaker on creativity and leadership. science and the future.