Following an early career in industry Mike Gregory was the founder member of the team which established the IfM in 1998. Linking science, engineering, management and policy and integrating education, research and practice the IfM now has over 250 staff and research students and a further 100 undergraduate and Masters students. He retired as Head of the Manufacturing and Management Division of the University of Cambridge's Department of Engineering and of the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) in 2015.

Mike Gregory's work is closely linked with industry and government and he has published in the areas of manufacturing strategy, technology management, international manufacturing and manufacturing policy. External activities have included membership of various government and institutional committees.

He served as Executive Director of the Cambridge MIT Institute from 2005-2008, Springer Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley in 2008/9, and held senior roles at the Institute for Continuing Education (ICE) and Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) in Cambridge and externally as a member of the Supervisory Board of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult (HVMC) and President of the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR).

He chairs the Babbage International Policy Forum and is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, where he is President of the SCR. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, where he has been a Trustee.

在早期的行业生涯之后，Mike Gregory是1998年成立IfM的团队的创始人。IfM将科学、工程、管理和政策联系起来，将教育、研究和实践相结合，目前拥有250多名员工和研究生，另有100名本科生和硕士生。2015年，他作为剑桥大学工程系和制造研究所（IfM）制造和管理部门负责人退休。

Mike Gregory的工作与行业和政府密切相关，他在制造业战略、技术管理、国际制造业和制造业政策等领域发表了文章。外部活动包括担任各种政府和机构委员会的成员。

2005-2008年任剑桥-麻省理工学院执行院长，2008/9年任加州大学伯克利分校施普林格客座教授，并在剑桥继续教育研究所（ICE）和可持续发展领导力研究所（CISL）担任高级职务，并在外部担任高价值制造弹射器（HVMC）监事会成员和剑桥应用研究协会（CSAR）主席。

他是巴贝奇国际政策论坛主席，也是剑桥丘吉尔学院的研究员，也是该学院的SCR主席。他是英国皇家工程学院的院士，也是该学院的受托人。