Professor Les Barclay was Deputy Director at the Radiocommunications Agency, responsible for research and radio technology. He is now a consultant in radio regulation, spectrum management and radio propagation, and is a visiting professor at the universities of Bradford, Lancaster and Surrey. He has been chairman of the study group on radiowave propagation within the International Telecommunication Union and chairman of the Scientific Committee on Telecommunications within the International Union of Radio Science. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and is currently a member of the Electronics and Communications Divisional Board of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. He has been awarded the OBE and the Polar Medal.