Abstract
Find out why Professor William Webb was awarded the 2018 IET Mountbatten Medal. Professor Webb has made outstanding contributions to technology entrepreneurship and promotion, particularly in the field of wireless telecommunications, spectrum and 5G. He has also supported engineering career mentorships to the young. He was one of the founding directors of Neul, a company developing machine-to-machine technologies, which was subsequently sold to Huawei in 2014 for $25m. As IET President, he led initiatives to broaden the IET’s reach and make its output more relevant to the non-engineering community. He also wrote books for non-practitioners, such as the recent “Our Digital Future”. He has been instrumental in pioneering changes to radio spectrum management, from authoring the first report on the economic value of spectrum to leading UK's Ofcom as Director.
