IPA SESSION - BIOGRAPHIES

Dr J Mike Farley, Director of Technology Policy Liaison, Doosan Babcock Energy Limited

Dr Farley was educated in Yorkshire and gained his Doctorate in Applied Physics at the University of Durham.

He has worked with Doosan Babcock and its predecessors since 1974, initially within the Research & Development Department and later in the Technology Centre, becoming Director of Technology in 1998 and Director of Technology Policy Liaison in 2002.

Dr Farley represents the company on the Advanced Power Generation Technology Forum and is a member of the Government’s Advisory Committee on Carbon Abatement Technology. (Both these groups were very active in the preparation of the UK government’s Carbon Abatement Technologies Strategy for Fossil Fuel Power Generation.)

He is a member of the recently formed Coal Forum, the Energy Research Partnership, the UK Trade Investment’s Power Sector Advisory Group (PSAG) and, in Scotland, Chairman of the Industrial and Power Association (IPA). He is Chairman of the TUC/DTI/DEFRA Task Group on Clean Coal, and represents the company on the Technical Committee of the European Power Plant Suppliers’ Association and the Advisory Committee of the European Technology Platform for Zero-Emissions Fossil Fuel Power Plant.