Members
Chair
The Chair of the Panel is Professor David Rhind
Members
Members of the Advisory Panel are drawn from a wide variety of backgrounds including providers, re-users and consumers of public-sector information, experts from academia and industry, and representatives of producer and consumer groups and the devolved administrations.
The members of the Panel are listed below. Please click on a member’s name to be directed to their biography and a summary of the key issues facing the Panel as identified by them upon their appointment.
- Neil Ackroyd, Executive Director at Ordnance Survey representing the interests of Government Trading Funds;
- Michael Allen, Head of Knowledge Management at the Driver and Vehicle Operator Group at the Department of Transport;
- Michael Batty, Professor of Spatial Analysis and Planning and Director for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College, London;
- Stefan Carlyle, secondment from the Environment Agency to DEFRA as Programme Director Designate for the implementation of the INSPIRE Directive and the proposed new UK Location Strategy;
- Christopher Corbin, Analyst with the European Commission ePSPplus Thematic Network;
- J Eric Davies, Consulting Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University, representing the Library and Information community
- Keith Dugmore, Director of Demographic Decisions, founded the Demographics User Group;
- John Gray, holds executive and non executive Board appointments with businesses and trade associations;
- Christine Gifford, founding Director of both Public Partners and Gifford Owen;
- Hector MacQueen, 'Professor of Private Law and Co-Director of the AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law at Edinburgh University, who will represent Scotland and Scottish interests;
- Hilary Newiss, policy adviser in the field of Intellectual Property, health science and technology fields;
- Michael Nicholson, Managing Director of Intelligent Addressing Ltd and Chair of Locus;
- Shane O'Neill, is founder of a leading Public Sector Information strategic consultancy business (Shane O'Neill Associates);
- Avinash D. Persaud, Chairman of two investment boutiques: Intelligence Capital Limited and Elara Capital Limited;
- John Ponting, Former Head of Legal and Procurement at The Met Office;
- Christopher Roper, Director of Landmark Information Group, a provider of geographic information services;
- John Thornton, a Director of e-ssential Resources Limited represents local government providers of public sector information;
- Phillip Webb, former Chief Executive of the Police Information Technology Organisation;
- Peter Wienand, Head of Intellectual Property at Farrer & Co. and Chair of the Museums Copyright Group;