Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information

Today, Professor David Rhind CBE takes up the Chair of APPSI.

Professor Rhind replaces Professor Richard Susskind, OBE who was Chair of APPSI from 2003.

See press release for further details of Professor Rhind's appointment.

Professor Rhind brings the following experience and expertise to APPSI:

Professor David Rhind is a Non-Executive Director of the Bank of England and of the UK Statistical Authority; he is also Chairman of the Socio-Economic Committee of the Nuclear Decommissiong Authority and a Trustee of the Nuffield Foundation. He was Chairman of the Statistics Commission until March 2008. Until July 2007, he was Vice-Chancellor of the City University, London and before that he was Director General of Ordnance Survey Great Britain. Awarded the CBE in 2001 for services to social and geographical sciences, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society and an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of various books and numerous academic papers.