Programme Speakers
Christine Reid
Christine read Classics at St. Hilda's College, Oxford before joining Morrell, Peel and Gamlen, an Oxford firm of lawyers that acted for Oxford University for over 200 years. Whilst at that firm Christine started to specialise in technology law and was one of the first lawyers in the UK to develop an IT, and later, an e-commerce practice. She has over 20 years' experience advising on technology-related matters.
Christine has advised numerous academic institutions for most of her career and public sector research establishments, research councils and one of the regional development agencies on matters as diverse as: the protection and exploitation of intellectual property rights; technology and knowledge transfer; research and development; European and UK Government funded collaborations; joint ventures and strategic alliances; spin out companies; consultancy services; funding and grant agreements; state aids; data protection and freedom of information; IT procurement and outsourcing; data archiving, preservation and curation; and open access publishing.
Christine provides the legal secretariat to the Department of Trade and Industry/H.M. Treasury sponsored Lambert Working Group on University and Industry Collaborations and is a contributor to the Model Research Agreements and the toolkit that can be found on www.innovation.gov.uk/lambertagreements.
She is a director of Finance South East, a not-for-profit organisation that provides proof of concept and funding for HEI and business collaborations, as well as mentoring and investment readiness services for businesses in the area.
