Professor Tom Crick MBE
Non-Executive Director
Appointed: October 2017
Experience
Tom is Professor of Digital Policy at Swansea University and Chief Scientific Adviser at the UK Government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport. His academic interests sit at the research-policy-practice interface, identifying and addressing domain problems with broad digital, data-driven and computational themes — from AI, data science and cyber resilience, through to technology regulation, critical national infrastructure and digital public services.
Tom was an inaugural Commissioner of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales from 2018-2022, as well as a member of the expert panel for the Welsh Government’s 2019 Review of Digital Innovation for the Economy and the Future of Work. He has also led the major science and technology curriculum reforms in Wales over the past 10 years. Tom is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Scientist and Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and was appointed MBE in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to computer science.
Current other Board roles
Independent Member of Swansea Bay University Health Board.
Previous Non-Executive positions
Non-Executive Director of Sector Development Wales Partnership Ltd (a Welsh Government body known as Industry Wales). Non-Executive Director of the Ofcom Advisory Committee for Wales. Vice-President of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.
Committee membership
Chair of the Technology Committee. Member of the Remuneration Committee and Quality and Safety Committee.