Brian Brookman, formerly the Chief Scientific Officer for LGC’s global proficiency testing (PT) business, and now working as an independent consultant on PT, has over forty-five years’ experience in analytical science, the past thirty years in the field of analytical quality, particularly concerned with PT. He has been involved, around the world, in various training and consultative projects concerned with developing PT and the accreditation of PT providers.

Brian is very active at the national, European and international level with respect to the development and harmonisation of good practice in PT. He is currently Chair of the ILAC Accreditation Issues Committee 17043 Working Group, Chair of the Eurachem PT Working Group, Chair of the EA-Eurolab-Eurachem (EEE) Joint Working Group on PT in Accreditation and Chair of the UK Working Group on PT. He was an ILAC liaison on the ISO/CASCO Working Group that revised ISO/IEC 17043, and is an ILAC liaison on the ISO Committee responsible for the development of ISO 13528.