Vanessa Wood

The Vice President for Knowledge Transfer and Business Relations heads the Executive Board's Knowledge Transfer and Business Relations department.

In particular, she is responsible for the strategic control and promotion of ETH Zurich's relationships with knowledge transfer partners, quality assurance in knowledge transfer and in business relations, the valorisation of research results and cooperation with industry and knowledge transfer to and from politics and society. Her area of ​​responsibility also includes approving contracts that units of ETH Zurich conclude with third parties and which primarily serve to implement research results and cooperation with industry, supporting spin-​offs and promoting future founders .