Michael Tobias, MSc in Genealogical, Palaeographic and Heraldic Studies, is a native of Glasgow, Scotland, actuary and data management consultant who is known as the unofficial walking encyclopedia of the community's history. In 2011 he received the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies Lifetime Achievement Award in Washington DC, and in 2021 an OBE for services to the Jewish community in the Queen's New Year's Honours List. He is a co-founder and board member of Jewish Records Indexing-Poland (1995), president of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain (2022), Honorary Research Fellow-Genealogical Studies, University of Strathclyde (2020-), and former Vice President of Programming for JewishGen Inc. (1995-2018).