Jon Bartholomew is Head of Electrical, Time and Frequency Laboratory at Emirates Metrology Institute (EMI) the national metrology institute of the United Arab Emirates. He is a Chartered Physicist with an MSc in Industrial Measurement Systems from Brunel University, UK. He started work in Electrical Metrology in 1990, working at the National Physical Laboratory, UK and in Saudi Arabia before joining EMI at its founding in 2013. He has also worked as a systems engineer with a focus on process improvement through the modelling of standards, requirements, and processes. He is the GULFMET TC chair leader and chair of the GULFMET working group on digital transformation.