Hugh Aldridge specializes in corporate engagement, partnerships and fundraising.

From 2014 to 2016 was Head of Development – Corporate at the University of Oxford, where he was responsible for increasing the breadth and depth of the University’s engagements with companies around the world. Previous positions include Director of Water & Cities based at UC Berkeley, Director of Business Relations at the University of Manchester, Director of the Research & Enterprise Partnership at Aberystwyth and Bangor Universities in Wales, Associate Director at the University of Cambridge’s Corporate Liaison Office and Director at the Cambridge-MIT Institute (a government-funded partnership between the University of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Before moving to the higher education sector, Hugh worked at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories developing and managing the Labs’ key university partnerships, and HP’s philanthropy programme in the UK and Ireland.