Bill Harris has nearly 30 years of diverse, progressively advanced international experience building and leading major government and university institutions, strategically developing research and educational enterprises to benefit society, managing large budgets for maximum results, and hiring entrepreneurial personnel and teacher-scholars.

Bill is the co-founder and board chair of Innovation Advisory Partners. From 2006 to 2022, he was the president and CEO of Science Foundation Arizona, where he was responsible for initiating a new public-private $235MM partnership to help the state of Arizona transform its focus on research and education.

Previously, as director general of Science Foundation Ireland (2001-2006), Bill was responsible for the overall leadership of this new national science foundation and management of its €635MM grants program. SFI was founded in 2000 by the Irish government to build high-tech research programs with national economic impact, to support outstanding Irish scientists, and to recruit distinguished scientists from around the world to Ireland's universities and institutes of technology. With SFI, Bill built partnerships with numerous Irish government agencies to create dynamic academic-industry research centers, recruited multinational corporate investment in these centers, and initiated the formation of effective national policies on technology transfer and intellectual property.