
Sir Anthony Finkelstein
President of City St George's, University of London
Prof. Sir Anthony Finkelstein CBE FREng is the President of City St George’s, University of London and Professor of Software Systems Engineering. Until taking up the role of President he was Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security to HM Government. Whilst undertaking this role he retained a position as a Fellow of The Alan Turing Institute, the UK national institute for AI and data science, of which he was a founding trustee. He was Dean of UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences, and before that Head of UCL Department of Computer Science. He started his career at Imperial College. He has established three successful ‘spin-out’ companies (including two ‘exits’). He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Distinguished Fellow of RUSI.