Colin P. Burke was born in Rochester, England, on October 19, 1962. He received the B.Sc. degree in 1987 and the Ph.D. degree in 1992, both from King's College.From 1981 to 1984 he worked in the international nonmarine insurance market at Lloyd's of London, and then worked for a financial consultancy. His research has been in the areas of ELF propagation in the Earth-ionosphere duct and radio wave propagation in layered media.