Dr Leon Lobo is the Head of the National Timing Centre (NTC) programme at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). He leads the strategic direction for national resiliency in Time, Frequency and Synchronisation and focuses on developing and delivering a national timing strategy. The NTC will be developing a capability toward a national resiliency in timing for our expanding digital infrastructure, stimulating the development of an assured supply chain and addressing the skills gap for time and frequency technologies and dissemination solutions.
A chartered engineer, with a PhD in high power laser material processing, he led the team developing NPLTime®, NPL’s certified fibre-delivered time dissemination solution to the City of London for high frequency trading systems and regulatory compliance. He also led a cross-government team developing the UK's first Timing Strategy, conceptualised and proposed the now developing National Timing Centre, embedded in UK PNT resilience policy.