Michael Talbot
Deputy Head
Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV)
Michael Talbot is Deputy Head of the UK Government’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) of which he was a founding member in 2015. He returned to CCAV after a two-year industrial secondment as Head of Strategy to Zenzic, as part of CAM Testbed UK, delivering a policy he designed. Prior to CCAV, Michael was Head of Horizon Scanning in the UK Government's Horizon Scanning Programme, leading on the Eight Great Technologies, setting up a cross-Whitehall emerging technologies community of interest (including self-driving vehicles).
Michael holds Masters’ degrees from the Universities of Toronto and Oxford.