Phil is Head of Applied Research for Media in BBC, Research & Development. He initially joined the BBC in 1983, returning in 1989 after a spell in commercial television, and has worked on a wide variety of projects involving hardware design, software and systems engineering. Since 2009 he has led engineering teams which have contributed to many open international standards including initiating the work which led to the development and trialling of the HLG standard for UHD HDR. Over a long career he has contributed to data broadcasting, the analogue to digital video infrastructure transition, the research and adoption of motion compensated video processing techniques. Since 1996 he has contributed to all the major BBC digital TV projects across Freeview, Freesat, YouView and Freely and BBC integrations with third-party platforms, e.g. Sky. His work is now centred on the BBC’s transition from broadcast to streaming distribution. Phil is also non-executive Director of the Digital TV Group. He is a graduate of Imperial College, London, a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.