Bob Wardrop
Professor, University of Cambridge & Spin-out Founder, Cambridge University & RegGenome
Bob is a member of the finance faculty at the Cambridge Judge Business School where co-founded the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) and the Regulatory Genome Project. Bob’s research studies innovation at the intersection of technological change and the global financial system, and in 2021 he received the CJBS Research Impact Award for his work applying AI to regulatory information in the field of computational regulation. This research project led to the creation of a university spin-out company (RegGenome) which is recognised as being globally best-in-class in machine-based regulatory document analysis. RegGenome's data and regulatory policy data analysis solutions are currently used by more than 100 regulatory authorities and commercial enterprise customers. Bob currently serves as RegGenome's Executive Chairman and has held several advisory board roles with regulatory authorities and corporate Directorships over the course of his professional career. He continues to teach several courses at Cambridge including an MBA course called "Geopolitics & Financial Regulation". Bob holds an MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge.
