Paul Haynes is a senior lecturer in Marketing at the School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London, and a member of the Centre for Research into Sustainability (CRIS). His research interests include branding, networks, energy policy, high-impact innovation, FinTech, and the promotion of sustainable business practices & policies. His core research approach is analysing the ways networks impact on innovation and critically assessing the key entrepreneurial and marketing practices they afford, including branding, social innovation and the application of new technology.

He previously worked at Cambridge University as part of the research team at the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research, engaged in energy technologies and carbon emission modelling, as well as communicating the impact of the research to key decision makers and policy stakeholders. He is a Policy Fellow member for Centre Science & Policy.

Paul holds an MA from Warwick University and a PhD from Lancaster University, with a thesis that examined the emergence of innovation and the role of non-linear dynamics on the use of new technologies. He has held post-doctoral research positions at Trinity College, Dublin, and the Saïd Business School, Oxford University and a college Lecturer position at Pembroke College, Cambridge.