Dr. Riddhi Y. Shukla is Head of Technology Deployment at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Her role within KAUST Innovation is to lead the Technology Deployment team in identifying global partners in order to deploy KAUST technology assets to generate societal, technological, environmental and economic impact. Riddhi has an academic background in Pharmacy with a PhD in Neuropharmacology with over 19 years’ experience of working in UK academia in licensing, business development, commercial analysis, technology commercialization and developing spin-ins and spin-outs.