Philip John Diamond CBE HonFInstP is the Director General of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation.
[2][3] He was the director of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics from 1 October 2006 until 2010.
He was the Chief of CSIRO's Astronomy and Space Sciences Division from 1 June 2010[4] to October 2012.
Diamond was educated at the University of Leeds ( Bachelor of Science 1979) and the University of Manchester where he was awarded a PhD in Radio astronomy in 1982 for work on MERLIN and OH/IR stars.
[7][8][9][10] Diamond was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to global radio astronomy.