Nigel Richard Shadbolt is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. In June 2009, he was appointed together with Sir Tim Berners-Lee as Information Advisor to the UK Government. The two led a team to developdata.gov.uk a single point of access for UK non-personal Governmental public data.In May 2010 he was appointed by the UK Coalition Government to the Public Sector Transparency Board responsible for setting open data standards across the public sector and developing the legal Right to Data.