Adam Parr is an Anglo-French businessman and former chairman and chief executive of the Williams Formula One team.

Adam chairs Oxford Semantic Technologies Limited, a spin-out of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, and The Downforce Trust, a UK charity dedicated to accelerating the carbon drawdown.

Adam is Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia, a director of Apolitical, and has a venture capital fund with investments in machine-learning, bio-mechanical technology and engineering.

Adam is the author of two books about Formula One: The Art of War – Five Years in Formula One; and co-author, with Ross Brawn, of Total Competition – Lessons in Strategy from Formula One. His academic study, The Mandate of Heaven — Strategy, Revolution, and the First European Translation of Sunzi’s Art of War (1772) was published by Brill in November 2019.

Adam was born in London in 1965. He holds an MA from Cambridge University and a PhD from UCL University of London. During his 33-year career, he has lived and worked in Europe, Japan, South Africa and Australia. Today he lives in Oxford with his wife and two children.