Professor Brian Collins, Chief Scientific Adviser at Dept for Transport and at Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Professor Brian Collins

Professor Brian Collins became the Departmental Chief Scientific Adviser at DfT in October 2006 and at BERR in May 2008. He is also Professor of Information Systems at the Defence College of Management and Technology (DCMT), Cranfield University. His role as a DCSA is to ensure that the department's technological activities are well directed and that where appropriate policy is based on good science and engineering. He advises CSIA and IPS on Security and Technology matters. He was Chief Scientist and Technical Director at GCHQ and Deputy Director at RSRE. He is a Fellow of IET, BCS, IOP and RSA.