Tony Mears is the Director of Transformation, Improvement, Planning and Strategy at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust in the English National Health Service (NHS), a doctoral candidate in the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London, and the principal consultant at Innovation Advisory Ltd.

He is the author of ‘Innovation is Dead: dispatches from the front’ which seeks to deploy cross sector innovation for public sector good. He has previously been deputy director of innovation for a new hospital programme – and led the technology strategy, EU Exit negotiation, and launch policy at the UK Space Agency, including as a delegate to the UN and European Space Agency.

He has sat on the advisory board of wearable company WHOOP; has an MA in Political Communications; a BA in Archaeology; and resides in the South of England with his wife and two children.