Fellow: Campbell
Elected: 2020
Discipline: Private Sector Leadership
Mr Melfort Campbell
Director, Imes Group Limited
Melfort Campbell founded his first business in 1985 and continues as a non executive with interests in engineering, renewable energy and marine industries whilst also running the family estate in Aberdeenshire.
Melfort has long focused on innovation through business – university engagement which he is now applying to the decarbonization of the UKCS energy industry through his involvement with the Energy Transition Strategic Leadership group. Active in converting academic and scientific research in to economic value through a number of other boards focused on research and innovation.
Melfort is a board member of Scottish Enterprise and former chair of CBI Scotland and the Robert Gordon University Board of Governors. Current roles are as Hon Col of the Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry, a Stipendiary Professor of Engineering at the University of Strathclyde and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.