Robert G. Blake

Candidate's Statement

As Chair of the GLOBECOM/ICC Conference Committee (GICC), I am aware that academic submissions to our conferences have grown as the Communications Society has become more global. However, we have to attract more industry members back to our Society so that there is more contact and synergy between the academic researchers and communication system developers, designers, operators, and manufacturers.

Biography

Bob Blake received his B.Sc. in 1964 and Ph.D. in 1970 from London University. In 1970 he moved to the new Martlesham Heath Laboratories of BT. Following early work on Electret microphones and Reed relay switches, he finally managed the Radio System Division, and was involved in the development of microwave systems, satellite fixed and mobile systems, cordless telephones, digital cellular systems, radio propagation, antennas, and spectrum policy and strategy. He retired from BT in 1995, although he remained a part-time consultant until 2000.

He joined the IEEE Communications Society in 1992. He assisted with the bid, and became Executive Vice-Chair of the first GLOBECOM Conference in Europe: London, November 1996. He was invited to join the Communications Society GICC in 2000 and became its Chair in 2001.