Professor Brian Collins became the Department for Transport's Chief Scientific Adviser in October 2006. 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. Brian 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.

 

Brian's role at DfT is to ensure that the department's scientific activities are well directed and that all policy is soundly based on good science.

 

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