Simon Skinner

Affiliation

Thales Training and Simulation

Biography

Simon Skinner is the product policy leader for Thales Training and Simulation. He graduated with an honors degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Southampton in 1986, is a chartered engineer and fellow of the UK institution of Engineering and Technology. He has worked in the simulation industry for more than 30 years in commercial, technical and managerial roles; this has included leading international interoperability standards development as chair of the Common Image Generator Interface (CIGI) group in the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO). He was awarded a commendation for research in driver simulators in 2014 by the UK Ministry of Defence’s Chief Scientific Adviser. He is the Vice Chair of the NATO Modelling and Simulation Group (NMSG) which has the delegated authority for setting M&S standards across the NATO alliance, and he also co-chairs a 3-year research task group looking at interoperability standards gaps for digital twins.