Neil Beagrie
Neil is a founding director and a principal consultant with Charles Beagrie Limited. The company works with a range of UK and international clients, associates and business partners. For further information see the consultancy webpages.
He is a leading expert on digital preservation and curation and has an international reputation across the archive, library, science and research sectors in the long-term management of digital assets.
He was the international consultant to the US National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). He has played a major role in developing strategies for digital preservation including founding the Digital Preservation Coalition and overseeing development of the UK Digital Curation Centre.
His career spans a range of senior information management roles including BL/JISC Partnership Manager at the British Library, Programme Director at the UK Joint Information Systems Committee, Director and Assistant Director of the Arts and Humanities Data Service, and Head of Archaeological Archives and Library at the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, and of the British Cartographic Society; an honorary research fellow in the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at University College London; a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Digital Asset Management; and a member of the external advisory panel for the Department of Information Studies at the University of Sheffield.