Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> March 19, 2001
IAN HARVEY is the Chief Executive Officer of BTG Plc. He has an MA in
Mechanical Sciences from Cambridge University and an MBA from Harvard
University. He was with Vickers and then Laporte Industries for 10 years
before seven years at the World Bank, operating in Asia and in Africa.
He joined BTG in 1985 as Chief Executive. Between 1988 and 1993 he
served as a member of the UK Prime Minister's Advisory Council on
Science and Technology. He is a Fellow of Nottingham University (1994),
a member of the Advisory Panel for "SPRU" (Science and Technology Policy
Research Unit of Sussex University) since 1989. He became a Director of
the Intellectual Property Institute in 1998 and Chairman in 1999. Mr
Harvey serves on the Board of Primaxis Technology Ventures, Inc. and on
the European Advisory Council of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. He is
also a Director of other BTG companies. Profile
core business today?
Mr. Harvey: We're a very unusual mixture bringing together tremendous
understanding of the
