Profile summary
- Contact name:
- Perry Guess
- Programme area:
- Cross-cutting Horizon Europe advice
- Telephone:
- +44 (0)7885 677 606
- Email:
- ncp-crosscutting@iuk.ukri.org
Profile
Perry Guess is the UK National Contact Point, Cross-Cutting, for Horizon Europe, supporting organisations new to Horizon Europe navigate and access the opportunities available.
Perry has over 30 years’ experience of national and international R&D and innovation funding, having worked in research technology organisations (RTO), universities (Oxford and Exeter) and funding bodies (NERC and Innovate UK).
He co-created and co-ran, for ten years, the government backed Environmental Sustainability Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN), drawing together key academics and business to inform and exploit research to the benefit of the UK; was Head of Knowledge Exchange and Commercialisation at the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) for six years; and spent seven years, prior to joining Innovate UK in 2025, in an innovation consultancy, supporting, in particular, businesses from multiple sectors to secure significant grant funding.