Peter Holland CBE DL is Chairman of the NPIA board. He was, until 2007, the elected Vice Chairman of the Association of Police Authorities, leading on IT matters, and is now an honorary Vice President.

A journalist by profession, he was at Reuters for 23 years, starting out as a financial journalist and moving through varied roles, including Managing Director of Reuters Europe, Reuters Overseas Ltd and Chairman of Reuters Latin America/Africa and what is now Reuters Television.  

He was also on the boards of both Centrex and the Police Information and Technology Organisation (PITO). In 1995 he was appointed independent member of Hertfordshire Police Authority, and in 1997 was elected Chairman until standing down in 2003. In 2001 he was appointed an independent council member of the Telecommunications Ombudsman Service (Otelo) and subsequently elected Chairman. He is now Chairman of the Ombudsman Service Limited (TOSL) which operated ombudsman services for telecommunications, energy and surveyors. In 2002 he was appointed Chairman of Herts in Trust, a charity working to support safer communities and lower crime rates in Hertfordshire; and in 2005 appointed to the Board of St John Ambulance Ltd and Chairman of its Audit Committee.

He was appointed a Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire in 2000 and awarded the CBE for services to policing in the New Years Honours 2005.  His leisure activities include sailing, tennis and scuba diving.  He is married with one daughter.