Prof Chana joined DIANA as its first Managing Director, bringing with him extensive experience of leading innovative science and technology research and development in academia, industry and government, focusing on global risks and next generation infrastructure security. He has joined DIANA from Imperial College London where he was Director of the Institute for Security Science and Technology and Co-Director of the Centre for Financial Technology within Imperial College Business School.

Prof Chana is interested in low probability high impact events and their ramifications on sustainable security and resilience and has published on the use of machine learning methods for defensive and offensive cyber-physical security, developed advanced technologies for mitigating physical security risks and set national and international policy related to the security of space borne systems as part of the UK government.

Prof Chana has consulted and lectured worldwide with businesses and governments on the nature and implications of disruptive and emerging technologies, and he has several decades of experience in technology entrepreneurship, covering a wide range of applications spanning

quantum cascade laser detectors to materials science.

Established by the current Secretary General, Prof Chana was the founding Chair of NATO's Advisory Group on Emerging and Disruptive Technologies and is currently a high-level science advisor to the UK’s Ministry of Defence.

Prof Chana holds MSci and PhD degrees in Physics from King’s College London.