Hector McNeill was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.

As a member of Clare College, Cambridge University, he read agriculture at the School of Agriculture and economics at the Faculty of Economics. As a Fellow of the Food Research Institute at Stanford Univerity he complete studies in economics and systems engineering at the Departmentof Economics and School of Engineering.

He is the leading international developer of The Real Incomes Approach to Economics a distinct approach which emphasises productivity increases to generate real incomes growth. He is also the originator and developer of Locational-State Theory a comprehensive approach to data specification and analysis.

He is the Coordinator of SEEL-Systems Engineering Economics Lab which he founded in 1983 and the Director of The George Boole Foundation Limited which he founded in 2010.

Hector's work at the George Boole Foundation is dedicated to the development of useful decision analysis cloud-based analytical tools and models including support for macroeconomic policy analysis and agricultural project design and production optimization to meet sustainable operational requirements.

The latest product developments include SDGToolkit.com and Mutec.Cloud software-as-a-service provisions.

Hector's previous work has included being the first remote sensing expert with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Plant Production Division, where he led an all-Brazilian team to develop the world's first fully automated digital remote sensing-based crop production and inventory survey system for the Brazilian Institute of Coffee.

He was the manager of applications for the Information Technology and Telecommunications Task Force of the European Commission pioneering the involvement of user panels in support his leadership of a systems engineering group identifying useful developments to support life-long business learning systems to secure inovation based on global networks.

He was also the Environmental Economist for the World Bank G7 Rain Forest Trust Fund working on Agro-ecological zoning projects in the Amazon.

Hector is fluent in Portuguese and pays jazz harmonica, mainly Boss Nova and blues.

Hector's email is: hector.mcneill@hectormcneill.com