(CB, FREng, FBCS, CITP, FIET, C Eng, FIOP, FICE, FRSA, RCDS, MA, DPhil)

Professor Brian Collins is taking up the position of Professor of Engineering Policy at UCL in the summer of 2011. Prior to that he was the Department for Transport’s (DfT) Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) from October 2006 and CSA for the Department for Business innovation and Skills (BIS) from March 2009 after being CSA in Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) from May 2008, during which time Energy policy was in his remit. He left both positions at the end of May 2011. 

He is also currently chairing an Engineering and Interdependency Expert Group for Infrastructure UK, led by Lord James Sassoon, Commercial Secretary in Her Majesty’s Treasury.

He was bestowed by Her Majesty the Queen the Honour of Companion of the Bath (CB) in the 2011 New Years Honours list

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2009

He is an Emeritus Visiting Professor at City University London, a visiting professor at Wollongong University, NSW, Australia and holds an Honorary Doctorate from Kingston University.

He was educated as a physicist at Oxford University, from where he also holds a D.Phil in astrophysics.