Anthony Finkelstein
Biography
Professor Sir Anthony Finkelstein is President of City St George’s, University of London, and has been appointed as the Independent Reviewer of the Use of Non-corporate Communications Channels in HM Government.
He served as Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security from December 2015 to June 2021, concurrently holding the Chair in Software Systems Engineering at University College London (UCL). Prior to that, he was Dean of the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences and Head of UCL Computer Science.
He is a visiting professor at Imperial College London and at the National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), an elected Member of Academia Europaea (MAE) and a Fellow of the City and Guilds of London Institute (FCGI).
His scientific work is in the broad area of systems engineering.
Previous roles in government
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Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security