Dr Ananay Aguilar Dr Ananay Aguilar Head of TenU

Ananay oversees the activities of TenU, an international collaboration of leading tech transfer offices created to share effective practices in research commercialisation with the sector and government.

The members of TenU are the transfer offices of the universities of Cambridge, Columbia, Edinburgh, Imperial College London, KU Leuven, Manchester, MIT, Stanford, Oxford, and UCL.

After leading a two-year pilot programme, Ananay raised £4m to deliver a programme of work for a further five years. Under Ananay’s leadership, TenU has delivered the University Spinout Investment Terms Guide—the USIT Guide, a set of recommendations offering a landing zone for what a positive deal should look like; the TenU Future Leaders Programme, an international training programme of peer-learning and exchange for mid-career technology transfer professionals, and the TenU Hosts event series.

Prior to joining TenU, Ananay worked as an independent consultant connecting policy and research in the areas of copyright, cultural policy and diversity. She previously held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship and a Mellon Disciplinary Innovation Teaching Fellowship at the University of Cambridge.

Ananay continues to be affiliated with the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) and to mentor early career researchers as part of the University’s Office for Postdoctoral Affairs Mentorship Scheme.

Ananay joined TenU in June 2020. TenU is funded by Research England and hosted by Cambridge Enterprise.