Membership

CHAIRMAN: Professor David Rhind CBE

Professor David Rhind is Chairman of Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust and of the Bank of England Pension Trustee. He is also a Non-Executive Director of the UK Statistical Authority and is a Trustee of the Nuffield Foundation. He was a Non-Executive Director of the Bank of England until summer 2009 and was Chairman of the Statistics Commission for five years until March 2008. Until July 2007, he was Vice-Chancellor of the City University, London and before that he was Director General of Ordnance Survey Great Britain. Awarded the CBE in 2001 for services to social and geographical sciences, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society and an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy.

DEPUTY CHAIR: Peter Wienand

Peter Wienand is a partner at Farrer & Co specialising in intellectual property law. He is a member of the British Computer Society and Intellectual Property Institute. He advises clients in the media, cultural, technology and academic sectors. Among his particular interests are rights management, IPR policies and copyright in the visual arts. He chairs the Museums Copyright Group and sits on the Board of MDA (which advises museums, galleries and archives on collections management). He edited and co-authored A guide to copyright for museums and galleries (Routledge 2000).

Neil Ackroyd

Neil Ackroyd is the Executive Director responsible for Data Collection and Management at the Ordnance Survey. Prior to joining the public sector Neil was employed in by the GPS & Location Based Services company Trimble as their European, Middle-East and African (EAME) Technical Manager and the responsible Business Manager for the construction market segment. Neil is the author of Global navigation - a GPS users guide. He holds a number of GPS related patents.

Robert (Bob) Barr

Throughout his career, Bob Barr has worked with public sector information as an academic, commercial developer, and recently as an elected local government member. He has worked primarily as a specialist on geospatial information, but has a broad knowledge of Public Sector Information (PSI) and the economic debates surrounding it. Bob has a very tangible enthusiasm for PSI, and is persuasive in communicating his creative ideas for its development.

Keith Dugmore

Keith Dugmore is Director of Demographic Decisions, a consultancy advising on the use of demographic data, and also founded the Demographics User Group (which represents large commercial users of public data to Government). He previously held a number of directorships and managerial posts in the private and public sectors. He is a Fellow and former Council Member of the Royal Statistical Society, has chaired its Statistics User Forum, and is an invited member of various Economic and Social Research Council advisory committees. His appointment is as an expert member in statistics.

Michael Jennings

Michael Jennings retired in July 2009 as the Acting Deputy Chief Executive at Surrey County Council. Before that he held a succession of director posts at the County Council, and prior to that management posts at the Greater London Council. He has been Co-Chairman of the Central-Local government Information Partnership (CLIP); Chairman, successively of local government's Geographic Information, Information Management, and e-Government Groups; Founding Chairman of the Local Government Information House Ltd (LGIH); a Member of the Statistics Advisory Committee (a predecessor of the Statistics Commission and Authority); a Member of the Census 2011 Review Group; and a Member of the info4local.gov Steering Group. He remains a Director of the Local Government Information House Ltd; is a Non-Executive Director of the Kingston Hospital NHS Trust; and the Director of Way Ahead Associates Ltd.

David Lammey

David Lammey is Head of the Information Management & Central Advisory Branch, in the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM). He was previously Head of the Central Freedom of Information team in OFMDFM and, before that, Head of Records Management and Administration in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), where he worked for 17 years. David is the author of a wide range of official publications concerning records management and access to information issues. A keen historian, he has also published articles in academic journals on Anglo-Irish relations in the modern era and, most recently, contributed several biographies to the New dictionary of national biography (Oxford University Press).

Paul Longley

Professor Paul Longley is an academic specialising in the exploitation of geospatial information, and has been working at University College London since 2000. He is authoritative and passionate about his involvement in developing a wide range of PSI applications and is very familiar with academic developments in the area worldwide. He has a comprehensive technical knowledge of PSI and has worked on innovative projects within a variety of sectors including education, health and policing.

Duncan Macniven

Duncan Macniven, representative member for Scotland, has 25 years experience in the Scottish senior civil service, and was Registrar General for Scotland between 2003 and 2011. As Registrar General, he was responsible for running the 2011 Census in Scotland, publishing demographic statistics about Scotland, and providing a wide range of family history information online. He represented Scottish public bodies in initiating and overseeing the One Scotland Mapping Agreement with Ordnance Survey. He has an MA and MLitt in History from Aberdeen University and honorary degrees of LLD from Robert Gordon University and Aberdeen University.

Hugh Neffendorf

Hugh Neffendorf, representative member for the developer community, has a broad strategic and technical knowledge of PSI, gained from his extensive and long-standing consultancy work advising on PSI and developing PSI products with a variety of public sector organisations. He has particular knowledge of official statistics, derived and modelled data, geospatial information, addressing and the transport sector, as well as a clear grasp of the commercial issues surrounding PSI, and provides advice on the potential development of PSI and modern operational delivery. He is also familiar with commercial sources of information and their relationship with PSI. Hugh manages the independent consultancy Katalysis and is also a Visiting Professor in Geography at the University of Southampton.

Hilary Newiss

Hilary Newiss was a partner and Head of Intellectual Property at a city firm of solicitors. Since leaving the city she has concentrated on public service and policy in the Intellectual Property, health/science and technology fields. She has served on the Human Genetics Commissions for six years and the Intellectual Property Advisory Committee. Currently she is a trustee of the Roslin Foundation, Charleston and a member of the National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care.

Michael Nicholson

Michael Nicholson BSc(Hons) FRICS, is Managing Director of Intelligent Addressing Ltd; Deputy Chair of the PSI Alliance; former Chair of the Locus Association, a body of private sector companies concerned by the re-use of PSI.

Bill Oates

Bill Oates is Head of Cartographics at the Welsh Government. He is leading a programme to implement the INSPIRE Directive in Wales and to maximise the benefits of geographic information created and used by the 8,000 staff of the Welsh Government and its associated bodies. He is also actively participating in other PSI initiatives in Wales, and is a member of the Delivery Board for the programme of works associated with the UK Location Strategy.

Shane O'Neill

Dr Shane O'Neill is founder of a leading Public Sector Information strategic consultancy business (Shane O'Neill Associates). Shane's career has focussed on information publishing in many different vertical markets. He has held Board appointments in the UK, USA, Germany and Australia, bringing a wide and varied perspective to PSI related matters. Shane is chairman of ELGIN, a private sector company dedicated to the opening up of local transport data and which manages roadworks.org, the national roadworks portal.

Prabhat Vaze

Prabhat Vaze is a government economist at the Ministry of Defence. He is responsible for analytical services, providing statistics on defence and economic and statistical advice. He has also worked at the Department for Transport, looking at the evidence needed to make transport planning decisions at local and national levels, often drawing on public sector information. Until 2005, Prabhat was the Chief Economist at the Office for National Statistics. He holds a doctorate in development economics.

Phillip Webb

Phillip Webb was Chief Executive of the Police Information Technology Organisation (PITO) from 2001 until his retirement in March 2007. Phillip is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS), Chartered IT Professional, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists. He continues to enjoy regular lecturing engagements and has published and spoken extensively on ICT, Knowledge Exploitation and Risk Management.

Dean White

Dean White has 18 years experience working in NHS information policy and practice on a national level, the last 12 of which have been at the NHS Information Centre. Dean has an up-to-date awareness of current PSI legislative and policy developments, and strong experience at work at the interface between open data and commercial exploitation of PSI in the health domain - an area of rapid development.

Patricia Seex

Patricia is an economist with the World Bank in Washington DC in the Africa Vice Presidency. Previously she has worked as an economist with Institute for Public Policy Research in London, for the Mayor of London with GLA Economics, and prior to that with economic consultants PACEC. Patricia specialises in public sector economics and particularly in government intervention to address market failure.

Contributing members

From time to time, the APPSI Chair appoints individuals as contributing members to undertake specific areas of work on behalf of the Panel. Contributing members are not full APPSI members and will therefore not be required to undergo the full recruitment process under OCPA rules.

APPSI currently does not have any contributing members.

Past members

Michael Allen, representative member of Wales, 2004 - 2008
Toby Bainton, representative member of the library and university community, 2003 - 2005
Professor Mike Batty, expert member in geospatial information, 2003 -2009
Stefan Carlyle, representative member in information producers, 2003 -2009
Michael Clark, expert member in geospatial information, 2003 - 2007
Christopher Corbin, expert member in European PSI, 2007 - 2010
J Eric Davies, representative member of the library and university community, 2007- 2010
Roger Dixon, representative member for Northern Ireland, 2003 - 2005
Trevor Fenwick, expert member in statistical information, 2003 - 2008
Christine Gifford, representative member of the information management community, 2005 - 2010
Jon Gray, expert member in digital content, 2007 -2010
Dick Greener, expert member in Intellectual Property law, 2003 - 2005
Stephen King, representative member of RNIB, 2003 - 2005
Hector MacQueen, representative member for Scotland, 2004-2011
John Ponting expert member in public sector information, 2003-2011
Avinash D. Persaud, expert member in economics, 2005 - 2008
Howard Picton, expert member of the library and information community, 2003 - 2005
Christopher Roper, expert member of geospatial information, 2003 - 2008
Chris Sellers, representative member of end-users, 2005 - 2007
Duncan Shiell MA, MSc, MBA, FRICS, representative member of trading funds, 2003 - 2007
Richard Susskind, Chair of APPSI, 2003 - 2008
John Thornton, representative of local government, 2004 - 2008
David Worlock, representative member, Digital Information Publishers, 2003-2008
David Young, representative member of Universities UK, 2003 - 2005

Previous members

Details of previous APPSI members can be found on the UK Government Web Archive.