Norman Lewis

Visiting Research Fellow at MCC Brussels

Norman Lewis is a writer, speaker and consultant on innovation and technology and currently a Visiting Research Fellow at MCC Brussels. He is a recognised expert on future trends and user behaviours regarding technology innovation and adoption. He has over 20 years of experience driving commercial innovations and disruptive social technologies in global corporations and start-ups. His research on the EU’s digital sovereignty strategy, particularly the negative impact of its regulatory dynamic, focuses on the increasing censorious attacks on online content and speech, which threaten the future of democracy and innovation. Formerly a director at PwC, responsible for running their crowd-sourced innovation programme, he was also the Director of Technology Research at Orange UK for a decade. He was an Executive Board member of the MIT Communications Futures Programme and a former chairman of the International Telecommunications Union’s TELECOM Forum Programme Committee. He is a co-author of Big Potatoes: the London Manifesto for Innovation.