ISTJA Vice-President
Leo is currently Vice President of the ISTJA, and has been broadcasting on space science and technology since the 1960s. He still broadcasts regularly on BBC, RTÉ, Newstalk, National Public Radio and Al Jazeera.
He is chairman of the annual ABSW Awards, which celebrates the very best in UK and Irish science and technology journalism.
He was chairman for more than a decade of Discover Science (forerunner of Research Ireland’s Discover Programme) and, after appointment by the President of Ireland, he served two terms as a Governor of the School of Cosmic Physics at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.
Leo’s history of space exploration was published in The Encyclopaedia of Space Travel and Astronomy (1979) – co-authored with Professor Carl Sagan, Sir Bernard Lovell and others – and in 1978 he was elected Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society.
He is a former Head of Radio 2 News at RTÉ and was a foreign correspondent for RTÉ and later the BBC throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
Irish Science & Technology Journalists’ Association (ISTJA) 