Dr Adam Parr is an Anglo-French barrister and businessman, and former chairman and chief executive of the Williams Formula One team. He has helped to found and grow several businesses including Oxford Semantic Technologies Limited, an AI spin-out of the University of Oxford and Cheesecake Energy Limited, an energy storage spin-out of the University of Nottingham.
In 2020, Adam set up The Downforce Trust, a UK charity dedicated to accelerating the carbon drawdown, focusing on the agricultural sector. So far, the Trust has helped launch Downforce®, an innovative technology for measuring natural capital, and SRI 2030, an initiative to promote climate-smart rice cultivation.
Adam is a Business Fellow and DPhil Candidate at the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford and a Research Associate at Hertford College, Oxford.
Adam is the author of two books about Formula One: The Art of War – Five Years in Formula One; and co-author, with Ross Brawn, of Total Competition – Lessons in Strategy from Formula One. His academic study, The Mandate of Heaven — Strategy, Revolution, and the First European Translation of Sunzi’s Art of War (1772) was published by Brill in 2019.
Adam was born in London in 1965. He holds an MA from Cambridge University and a PhD from UCL University of London. He has lived and worked in Europe, Japan, South Africa and Australia. Today he lives in Oxford with his wife and two children.
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Short Biography
Dr Adam Parr is an Anglo-French barrister and businessman, and former chairman and chief executive of the Williams Formula One team. He has helped to found and grow several businesses including Oxford Semantic Technologies Limited, an AI spin-out of the University of Oxford and Cheesecake Energy Limited, an energy storage spin-out of the University of Nottingham.
In 2020, Adam set up The Downforce Trust, a UK charity dedicated to accelerating the carbon drawdown, focusing on the agricultural sector. So far, the Trust has helped launch Downforce®, an innovative technology for measuring natural capital, and SRI 2030, an initiative to promote climate-smart rice cultivation.
Adam is a Business Fellow and DPhil Candidate at the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford and a Research Associate at Hertford College, Oxford.
Adam is the author of two books about Formula One: The Art of War – Five Years in Formula One; and co-author, with Ross Brawn, of Total Competition – Lessons in Strategy from Formula One. His academic study, The Mandate of Heaven — Strategy, Revolution, and the First European Translation of Sunzi’s Art of War (1772) was published by Brill in 2019.
Adam was born in London in 1965. He holds an MA from Cambridge University and a PhD from UCL University of London. He has lived and worked in Europe, Japan, South Africa and Australia. Today he lives in Oxford with his wife and two children.
