Gillian Docherty is Chief Executive of The Data Lab, an innovation centre with a mission to help Scotland maximise value from data and lead the world to a data-powered future through scientific progress, economic prosperity and social good.
The Data Lab helps accelerate the journey to impact by fuelling innovation through collaboration, building skills and talent, and strengthening Scotland’s thriving data science community.   Acting as a catalyst, using our expertise, network, funding and platforms to change how Scotland and the world, innovates with data.
Gillian is passionate about the opportunity for using Data to drive economic and social benefits. 
Gillian was appointed an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2019 for Services to Information Technology and Business.