Professor Brian Collins

Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS)

Professor

Brian Collins Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS).

He is also Professor of Information Systems at the Defence College of Management and Technology (DCMT), Cranfield University. He is the DCMT academic leader for all ICT research and education, and his research centres on information management using next generation information and communication technology.

Professor Collins is a graduate of Oxford University, where he read physics and also obtained his doctorate in astrophysics. His early career was in the scientific civil service, culminating as Deputy Director of RSRE and then Chief Scientist at the Government Communication Headquarters. He then worked in the private sector at KPMG, Wellcome Trust and finally as Chief Information Officer for Clifford Chance.

He has been an adviser to several government departments.

The role of the departmental Chief Scientific Adviser is to ensure that BIS strategy, policy making and delivery is effectively informed by robust, relevant, high quality science and engineering evidence, advice and research.




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