Dr Julian Allwood
Julian Allwood is a Reader in Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He worked for 10 years for Alcoa, prior to developing an academic career, initially at Imperial College, and from 2000 in Cambridge. In parallel with developing new manufacturing technologies for metals, he has built up a research group looking at environmental systems and production. From 2009-13 he held an EPSRC Leadership Fellowship, to explore ‘material efficiency’ as a climate mitigation strategy – delivering material services with less new material. This led to publication in 2012 of the book “Sustainable Materials: with both eyes open” which can be read online at www.withbotheyesopen.com.

Professor John Barrett
John Barrett is a Professor in Ecological Economics at the Sustainability Research Institute (SRI), University of Leeds. John's research interests include sustainable consumption and production (SCP) modelling, carbon accounting and exploring the transition to a low carbon pathway. John has an extensive knowledge of the use of Multi-Regional Environmental Input-Output modelling to understand the effectiveness of strategies and policies to deliver a low carbon economy. These key areas of research have involved the building of global trade models to understand the embodied carbon emissions in goods and services and estimating the upstream carbon emissions from emerging energy technologies.

Dr Jason Chilvers
Dr Jason Chilvers is Senior Lecturer in Environment, Science and Society and Chair of the Science, Society and Sustainability (3S) Research Group (http://www.3s.uea.ac.uk) at the University of East Anglia. His research spans governance, appraisal and public participation in relation to science, innovation and sustainability issues, including energy, climate change, sustainability transitions, and emerging technologies (such as climate geoengineering). 

Jo Coleman
Jo Coleman joined the ETI in 2011 and is the Director - Strategy Development.  Jo is responsible for the ongoing shape of the ETI’s technology strategy, by developing and utilising the ETI’s energy system modelling environment to inform strategic priorities for the UK, identifying and addressing market, regulatory and policy barriers and risks, and focussing the portfolio to deliver value to ETI members, as well as industrial development, engagement and growth.

Dr Lewis Dale
Lewis Dale is the Regulatory Strategy Manager for National Grid’s UK and European activities and has a particular interest in efficiently integrating renewables and distributed generation into the electricity system.  He is a lead contributor to the development of GB transmission access arrangements and network investment incentives.  Lewis holds a PhD in electrical engineering, has 30 years experience in engineering and economic roles within the industry, and is a visiting professor at ICL

Birgit Fais
Birgit Fais is a Research Associate in the Energy Systems Group at the UCL Energy Institute. Before that, she has worked for five years as a Research Associate at the Institute for Energy Economics and the Rational Use of Energy (IER) at the University of Stuttgart where she has also written her PhD on the modelling of policy instruments in energy system models.
Her research work focuses on developing and applying different types of energy system models, the economic evaluation of climate and energy policy instruments and the representation of technological change and uncertainty in energy system models.  

Steven Fries
Steven Fries is Director of Analysis and Chief Economist at the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change. Prior to joining the Department, he was Chief Economist for Royal Dutch Shell and held a series of senior positions at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, including Deputy Chief Economist and Director of Research. He began his professional career as an economist at the International Monetary Fund. He holds D Phil in economics from the University of Oxford and an undergraduate degree in economics and finance from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. He has published widely on energy and climate change policy, financial reform and development, and the post-communist transition in Eastern Europe. 

Professor Nigel Gilbert
Professor Nigel Gilbert is a sociologist with a special interest in computational social science.  He was one of the first social scientists to use agent-based models, in the early 1990s, and has since published widely on the methodology underlying computer modelling, on basic issues in social science that can be addressed effectively using such models, and on the value of simulation for applied problems such as understanding commercial innovation and managing environmental resources such as energy and water.  He is the Director of the Centre for Research in Social Simulation at the University of Surrey.

Professor Richard Green
Richard Green is the Alan and Sabine Howard Professor of Sustainable Energy Business and Head of the Department of Management at Imperial College Business School.  He was previously Professor of Energy Economics and Director of the Institute for Energy Research and Policy at the University of Birmingham, and Professor of Economics at the University of Hull. He has been studying the economics and regulation of the electricity industry for over 20 years.  He has written extensively on market power in wholesale electricity markets and has also worked on transmission pricing. More recently, the main focus of his work has been on the impact of low-carbon generation (nuclear and renewables) on the electricity market, and the business and policy implications of this.

Martin Haigh
Martin has been working for Shell for ten years, and has been a member of the Shell Scenarios Team for the last eight.  He looks after the energy modelling for the team, and has led the development of Shell’s World Energy Model, which has underpinned the last two Shell scenario rounds.  He speaks frequently on energy-related issues and takes particular interests in energy technology development and environmental change.  His background is mathematics, with experience in mathematical and economic modelling in the transport and telecoms industries, as well as for energy.

Professor Jim Hall
Professor Jim Hall FREng is Director of the Environmental Change Institute and Professor of Climate and Environmental Risks in the University of Oxford. His research is located at the nexus between adaptation, risk analysis, infrastructure and water. He is a member of the UK independent Committee on Climate Change Adaptation. He is co-chair of the Global Water Partnership / OECD Task Force on the Economics of Water Security and Sustainable Growth and co-author of the Institution of Civil Engineer’s 2014 State of the Nation’s Infrastructure assessment. Jim leads the UK Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium, which is funded by a £4.7million Programme Grant for EPSRC and is developing and demonstrating a new generation of system simulation models and tools to inform analysis, planning and design of national infrastructure. 

Dr David Joffe
Dr. David Joffe is Head of Modelling at the Committee on Climate Change. He has been with the CCC since it was formed in 2007, following five years at Imperial College London where his research focused on the potential development of infrastructure to produce and distribute hydrogen for vehicles. David leads the CCC’s analysis on carbon capture and storage, shale gas, hydrogen and use of scarce bioenergy resources, and on meeting long-term emissions targets more generally. He has been a contributing author to most CCC reports, including those recommending the levels of 2050 target and the first four carbon budgets, as well as the recent fourth carbon budget review. He works closely with DECC and the ETI on energy system modelling and is a member of several academic advisory boards, including that of wholeSEM.

Professior Andrew Lovett
Andrew Lovett is a Professor of Environmental Sciences and Deputy Head of School at the University of East Anglia, UK.  His academic specialism is the use of Geographical Information Systems and he has taught the subject to students for over 20 years.  Andrew has published over 130 peer reviewed papers and book chapters on topics such as landscape planning, renewable energy and environmental economics.  He contributed to several projects on energy and ecosystem services in UKERC Phase 2 and is currently working on the Social, Economic and Environmental Research (SEER) project into Multi-Objective Land Use Decision Making funded by the Economic & Social Research Council and the Wensum Demonstration Test Catchment project (http://www.wensumalliance.org.uk) funded by Defra.

Jon Saltmarsh
Jon Saltmarsh is currently Head of Technical Energy Analysis in the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC). His role involves gathering evidence to underpin the UK Government’s policies on reducing demand for energy, principally through energy efficiency and through the use of locally generated, low carbon sources of energy. Prior to joining DECC, he ran a number of cutting edge technology development programmes. These provided low carbon alternatives to what were traditionally highly energy intensive activities. They included the world record breaking Zephyr, solar powered aircraft, designed to provide a low cost substitute for satellites and an innovative simulation system for training aircrew and ground based personnel that avoided many thousands of hours of aircraft flying time.

Dr Sheila Samsatli
Sheila Samsatli is a Research Associate at the Centre for Process Systems Engineering at Imperial College London. She received her PhD in Chemical Engineering  on fuel cell systems modelling and optimisation from University College London. Her research interests include hydrogen and fuel cells, energy storage and spatio-temporal modelling of energy systems. In particular, she has been involved in the development of ETI's Biomass Value Chain Model. Before coming to London, she worked as an Assistant Professor at University of the Philippines.

Professor Nilay Shah
Nilay Shah is the Director of the Centre for Process Systems Engineering at Imperial College. His research interests include the application of mutliscale process modelling and mathematical/systems engineering techniques to analyse and optimise smart infrastructures and complex, spatially- and temporally-explicit low-carbon energy and process systems, including bioenergy/biorenewable systems, hydrogen infrastructures, carbon capture and storage systems and urban energy systems. He is also interested in devising process systems engineering methods for the design and operation of complex systems such as large scale supply chains and bio-based processes, and in the application of model-based methods for plant safety assessment and risk analysis. 

Professor Neil Strachan
Professor Neil Strachan is an interdisciplinary energy economist. He is a Professor of Energy Economics and Modelling at the University College London (UCL) Energy Institute where he also serves as Director of Teaching. He received his PhD in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University in 2000. At the UCL Energy Institute, Neil's research interests revolve around energy-environment-economic modelling, the quantification of scenarios and transitions pathways, and interdisciplinary issues in energy economics and policy. He is also Principal Investigator for wholeSEM.

Professor Goran Strbac
Goran Strbac is a Professor of Energy Systems, with extensive experience in advanced modelling and analysis of operation, planning, investment and economics of the electricity system. He led the development of novel advanced analysis approaches and methodologies that have been extensively used to inform electricity industry, governments and regulatory bodies abut the role and value of emerging new technologies and systems in supporting cost effective evolution to smart low carbon future. 

Alec Waterhouse
Alec is the Head of DECC’s  Central Modelling Team. His team are responsible for modelling energy and emissions projections and long term carbon reduction pathways as well as modelling other cross-cutting policies such as Combined Heat and Power. They have recently designed and built a bespoke policy simulation language for household energy modelling. He is also implementing a cross-departmental quality assurance programme for analysis. He started his working life as an engineer before moving into Operational Research and has worked in a variety of organisations ranging from the retail to public sector.

Professor Jim Watson
Jim Watson is Research Director of the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) and Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Sussex. He was Director of the Sussex Energy Group at Sussex from Dec 2008 to Jan 2013. He has 20 years’ research experience on climate change, energy and innovation policy. He frequently advises the UK government, and has been a Specialist Adviser with two House of Commons select committees. Jim is a Council Member of the British Institute for Energy Economics (and was its chair in 2011). He is also a member of several other research and policy advisory groups, including wholeSEM's advisory board.

Marianne Zeyringer
Marianne Zeyringer joined the UCL Energy Institute as a Research Associate in November 2013. She is part of the whole systems energy modelling consortium (wholeSEM). Before coming to UCL Marianne had been working for 3 years at the European Commission Joint Research Centre- Institute for Energy and Transport. She has been pursuing joint doctoral studies on spatially and temporally explicit energy modelling at Utrecht University and BOKU University, Vienna. During her PhD she also participated in the Young Scientists Summer Program at IIASA where she was working on a spatially explicit electricity model for Kenya. Before, Marianne had studied Environmental Technology and Economics in Vienna.