Sir Anthony Charles Wiener Finkelstein was born on 28 July 1959 and is a British engineer and computer scientist.
20 Facts About Anthony Finkelstein
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Anthony Finkelstein is the President of City St George's, University of London.
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Anthony Finkelstein was Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security to HM Government until 2021.
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Anthony Finkelstein was educated at University College School, the University of Bradford, the London School of Economics and the Royal College of Art.
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Anthony Finkelstein has worked on applications of systems modelling in the life sciences.
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Anthony Finkelstein was appointed President of City, University of London in June 2021.
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Anthony Finkelstein is a member of Council of UK Research and Innovation and Chair of the Police Science Council established by the National Police Chiefs' Council.
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Anthony Finkelstein was Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security to HM Government from 2015 until 2021.
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Anthony Finkelstein was appointed in 2013 as a Member of Council of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council by the then Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts.
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Anthony Finkelstein was appointed as the UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security in December 2015.
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Anthony Finkelstein is a visiting professor at Imperial College London, at the University of South Australia and formerly at the National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan.
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Anthony Finkelstein was until 2022 a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Singapore National Research Foundation and previously served on the Board of the NHS Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.
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Anthony Finkelstein is an elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
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Anthony Finkelstein is an elected Member of Academia Europaea and a Fellow of the City and Guilds of London Institute.
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Anthony Finkelstein is a Distinguished Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute.
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Anthony Finkelstein is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the British Computer Society.
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Anthony Finkelstein was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to computer science and engineering and was knighted in the 2022 New Year Honours for public service.
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Anthony Finkelstein's mother, Mirjam Finkelstein, was a Holocaust survivor of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, while his father Ludwik Finkelstein OBE was born in Lwow, and became Professor of Measurement and Instrumentation at City University London.
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Anthony Finkelstein is a grandson, via his mother, of Alfred Wiener, the Jewish activist and founder of the Wiener Library.
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Anthony Finkelstein is a brother of the peer, Daniel Finkelstein and of Tamara Finkelstein, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.