Professor Sir Anthony Finkelstein CBE FREng DSc MAE FCGI

Sir Anthony Finkelstein is the President of City St George’s, University of London, and Professor of Software Systems Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He has Honorary Doctorates from City, University of London, the University of Bradford and an Honorary Fellowship from UCL. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in The Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2016, for services to computer science and engineering, and awarded a knighthood in the New Year Honours List 2022 for public service.

Until taking up the role of President, he was Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security to HM Government, a senior strategic and operational role that involves leadership of science, research and innovation across the UK's national security community. He currently holds a range of advisory roles across HM Government in areas related to security and technology.

Whilst undertaking the CSA role he held a Chair at UCL and an appointment as a Fellow of The Alan Turing Institute, the UK national institute for AI and data science, of which he was a founding trustee. Prior to this, he was Dean of UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences and before that Head of UCL Department of Computer Science. He held a Chair in Software Systems Engineering at UCL, having started his career at Imperial College, Department of Computing.

He has provided consultancy advice to a very large number of high-profile companies and government organisations and has established three successful ‘spin-out’ companies.