Anthony Finkelstein is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He was appointed CBE for services to engineering and computer science. He is a graduate in systems engineering holding a BEng, MSc and PhD. He is President of City, University of London, having taken up this role at the end of June 2021. He was formerly a Chief Scientific Adviser in HM Government. He was Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Sciences and Professor of Software Systems Engineering at University College London (UCL). He is a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, University of South Australia and formerly at the National Institute for Informatics, Tokyo, Japan. His research is in the area of modelling, software development methods and tools. He is a Fellow of both the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) and the British Computer Society (BCS). He has provided consultancy advice to a very large number of high profile companies and government organisations. He has acted as an expert in complex technology disputes and is highly experienced at technology due diligence on start-up companies. He has established three successful ‘spinout’ companies providing respectively professional services, product software and an innovative software service.Specialties: Software Engineering