Non-executive board member

Indro Mukerjee

Biography

Indro Mukerjee was appointed non-executive board member at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on 18 March 2025.

Indro was CEO of Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, for 3 and a half years until September 2024.

He is a highly experienced business leader, with CEO experience across technology and industrial businesses from multinationals to startups and private equity-backed ventures.

With a global career spanning Asia, the US, and Europe, Indro has led innovation, fast growth, spinouts, M&A, and business transformation across many different business situations. He has been strongly committed to supporting skills development, including co-founding and chairing the UK Electronics Skills Foundation.

He has an engineering degree from Oxford University, a graduate of the Wharton Advanced Management Program, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Academy of Medical Sciences.