Roles
Five current roles across delivery, the Academy, the profession and education, and the executive record that sits behind them.
2026 –
Royal Academy of Engineering
Elected to the Fellowship in September 2026. Since 2025 a member of the Academy's Clean Power Advisory Working Group, which examines the delivery risks to the UK's clean power mission and what engineering judgement says about managing them. Previously a member of the National Engineering Policy Centre's Net Zero Working Group from its launch in 2020.
2025 –
University of Exeter
Teaching, lecturing and mentoring in the department where I studied, with an inaugural lecture, Engineering a Sustainable Future, in November 2025. The role is about getting more people into engineering and sending them out able to deliver.
2026 –
European Federation of Chemical Engineering
Appointed to the Executive Board in March 2026 for the 2026–27 term. The board sets the activities of the federation of national chemical engineering societies across Europe, and the role carries the profession's contribution to the European transition.
2024 – 2025
Institution of Chemical Engineers
Elected by members to lead the professional body for 32,000 chemical engineers on a platform of sustainability, public engagement and the next generation. Chaired the Trustee Board. Took the profession into Parliament and to COP29, chaired five policy roundtables, and oversaw a 17 per cent rise in UK applications to study chemical engineering.
2026 –
CivicNetZero
A platform connecting cities, capital and delivery partners so that net zero and resilience projects move from plans to investable pipelines.
Platform connecting cities, capital and delivery partners for net zero and resilience infrastructure.
Executive lead for the £1 billion, twenty-year partnership between Bristol City Council and Ameresco. Negotiated the concession and the heat network sub-concession with Vattenfall, transferred the council's energy team into the joint venture and set its first five-year plan. Over 1,000 jobs and £61 million of social value in the first five years.
Grew the UK arm of the NYSE-listed energy services company into one of the UK's leading ESCOs, delivering efficiency and clean energy across the NHS, schools, social housing and local government. Negotiated a £196 million, 300 MW battery energy storage project and delivered the London Stadium solar installation.
Offshore wind and oil and gas design at Atkins, then energy services for public and commercial estates, with growing responsibility for sales and delivery.
Primary API manufacture, pilot plant operations and solvent recovery.
Carbon dioxide recovery in breweries.
Award
Presented to Bristol City Leap by the Global Partnership for Local Investment, an initiative of the World Economic Forum with UN-Habitat, at the Urban Transformation Summit. Received on behalf of the partnership with Bristol City Council.
| Years | Role | Body |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 – 2026 | Board Trustee | Institution of Chemical Engineers |
| 2020 – 2025 | Member, National Engineering Policy Centre Net Zero Working Group | Royal Academy of Engineering |
| 2019 – 2023 | Chair, Energy Community of Practice | Institution of Chemical Engineers |
| 2017 – 2021 | Steering group member, Future Climate Engineering Solutions | Engineering institutions' network, convened by IMechE |
| 2016 – 2019 | Board member, then Vice-Chair, Energy Centre | Institution of Chemical Engineers |
| 2016 – 2019 | Task group lead, Energy and Resource Efficiency | Institution of Chemical Engineers |