David is Professor of Enterprise and Innovation at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University He is also Visting Professor at the University of Lincoln, UK; Anglia Ruskin University, UK; University of Tampere, Finland.

Professor David Adams has been a senior executive in the Victorian Government for 8 years where he has held various positions including head of strategy in the Premiers Department and Executive Director Strategic Policy & Research in the Department for Victorian Communities where he was instrumental in the development of the ‘A Fairer Victoria’ policy statements – setting the long term social policy directions for the Government.

Budd shares the UNESCO Chair in Community-Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education with Dr. Rajesh Tandon of PRIA in New Delhi, India.  He is also a Professor of Community Development, an Associate in the Centre for Global Studies and a Senior Association with the Institute for Study and Innovation in Community University Engagement at the University of Victoria.