Sir John (James) O'Reilly DSc PhD CEng FREng, FRAes FLSW (born 1 December 1946) was Vice-Chancellor of Cranfield University from 2006 to 2013.
He later attended Brunel University gaining a BTech degree in 1969 and a DSc in 1991.
He was Professor of Telecommunications from 1994 to 2001 and head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, 1997–2001 at University College London.
[3] He left Cranfield and became Director General, Knowledge and Innovation, BIS, from 2013 – 2015.
[1][4] Since 2015, he is Chairman[5] of NICC Ltd.,[5] - a company which develops interoperability standards for public communications networks and services in the UK.