Professor Steve Otto is The R&A’s Executive Director – Chief Technology Officer. In this role he oversees the use of technology and data within The R&A’s work and the wider golf ecosystem. He also coordinates the organisation’s work on ranking systems, along with support of the World Handicap System.
Both of degrees are in mathematics and he worked at NASA Langley as a Staff Scientist, before becoming a Senior Lecturer in mathematics at the University of Birmingham, where he now holds an honorary Chair. He has authored two books, over eighty scientific papers and supervised 20 PhD projects, over half of which have been focussed on golf.
