Daljit Rehal, the Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO) of HMRC has been named the new President of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.
BCS has over 70,000 members across industry and academia.
BCS is focused in 2025 on “the importance of professional standards… the need to broaden computing education and adult digital skills.”
It is also working to improve diversity and inclusion (D&I) across the sector, where women, over 50s and people with disabilities or who are neurodivergent are under-represented,” it said today.
Rehal, who oversees one of central government’s most complex and challenging IT estates, takes over from Alastair Revell FBCS.
Sarah Winmill who is Head of Software Products at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been named BCS’ Deputy President.
Daljit said: “Chartered professionals – whichever industry they work in - make a public commitment to ethics, competence and accountability by meeting independent standards. Nowhere is that more important in technology where AI is woven into our lives like never before…
“My focus as BCS President will continue this theme - helping to build public trust in the value of tech professionals, and their ongoing development in roles across the public and private sector. We know that the AI Opportunities Action Plan aims to create tens of thousands of new AI professionals by 2030, and we will need a range of routes to get there from university degrees to apprenticeships, as well as prioritising diversity. It will be a huge year… for our membership community.”
Among recent HMRC digital successes are the Securing our Technical Future “SOTF” programme, which migrated 372 business services out of legacy data centres and onto modern environments. These included National Insurance and Pay-As-You-Earn Systems spanning more than 100 million accounts, supporting around 10 million daily transactions.
