Nuclear Power - Biographies

Adrian Bull, UK Stakeholder Relations Manager, New Power Plants Business, Westinghouse Electric Company

Adrian Bull is UK Stakeholder Relations Manager for the nuclear company Westinghouse – with particular focus on the market for new nuclear power stations and the potential for Westinghouse’s reactor – the AP1000. He is involved in dealings with Government, media, trade unions, regulators, as well as representing the nuclear industry to a wide range of groups. Prior to joining Westinghouse, Adrian worked for BNFL for over 20 years, in a variety of technical and commercial roles – latterly as BNFL’s Head of Energy Policy Studies.

He has worked on many submissions to Government consultations on nuclear and energy policy matters including three Government Energy Reviews, and has given evidence to several Select Committees on energy issues, both in Westminster and in the Scottish Parliament.

Adrian chairs both the Nuclear Industry Association’s Communications Working Group and the combined North West / North East Steering Group for the National Skills Academy for Nuclear. He is a Fellow of the Energy Institute, a member of the CBI’s North West Regional Council, the Energy Advisory Group of the Institute of Physics, and the North West Committee of the Nuclear Institute.

Outside work, Adrian is married with 3 children and lives in Manchester. He is a committee member of the North West Branch of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and in his spare time is an occasional fire-eater.

Dr Andy Clarke BEng (Hons), MSc, PhD, MBA, Manager of Nuclear Postgraduate Programmes, University of Manchester

Andy Clarke is currently the Manager of Nuclear Postgraduate Programmes at the Dalton Nuclear Institute, the University of Manchester. Andy is also the Nuclear EngD Centre Manager at the Manchester EngD Centre and the Nuclear Technology Education Consortium Centre Manager at NTEC.

The Dalton Nuclear Institute supports postgraduate education and training in Nuclear Science and Technology. Andy’s role involves solution selling to industry, strategic development, financial sustainability, technology development, knowledge transfer and programme management for the Dalton Nuclear Institute. Included in this role are the formation, development and programme management of the EngD and NTEC programmes, and development of bespoke training and education courses tailored for industry.

Prior to this position at the University of Manchester, Andy has worked in the Steel industry as a Senior Technology Translator, and served for 10 years in the British Army, working in theatres including Iraq and Northern Ireland.

Jean Llewellyn, Chief Executive, National Skills Academy Nuclear

Jean Llewellyn is the Chief Executive of the National Skills Academy for Nuclear - she was appointed to this role in November 2007. This followed a years’ secondment from the Northwest Development Agency (NWDA) leading the Project Team that developed the successful, employer led, government approved, Skills Academy Business Plan. Prior to this she spent four years working with employers and partners in the Nuclear Sector, including Chairing the Nuclear Skills Advisory Group, to identify the key skills and training challenges/issues facing the sector. This culminated in the employer led proposal to establish a National Skills Academy for Nuclear to address these challenges.

This lead on addressing the skills issues facing the Nuclear Sector was as part of Jean’s role as the Head of Skills Policy at the NWDA. In this role she led on the Northwest approach to addressing sector skills challenges facing the region and implementing national skills policy at a regional level.

Jean is the Chair of the UK National Skills Academy Strategic Network.

She has had an extensive career in the skills and education arena spending 12 years in Higher and Further Education and establishing various innovative skills development initiatives. She gained a Post Graduate Certificate of Education whilst lecturing at Manchester Metropolitan University.

John Robertson MP, Glasgow North West

John Robertson is the Member of Parliament for Glasgow North West, a member of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Nuclear Energy. He is also Parliamentary Private Secretary to Yvette Cooper, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, and has held this post since 2008.

John was elected to Parliament as MP for Glasgow Anniesland, as it then was, in a by-election in November 2000 following the death of Donald Dewar, for whom he was election agent. Before entering Parliament he was a manager with BT for 31 years and he has maintained his involvement in the telecoms sector by chairing the APPG on communications. He also chairs groups on Music, Nigeria and Angola.

John became chair of the Nuclear Energy Group in 2005 and has become a high profile advocate of the technology in Parliament. His involvement in this area stemmed from his interest in the energy challenges facing the UK – there are no nuclear power stations in or near to his constituency and, according to the industry, no direct employees of the sector in the area – and he sat on the Energy Bill Committee last year.

John is also currently honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Scottish Group of Labour MPs and sat on the Scottish Affairs Select Committee from 2001 to 2005, and was a member of the European Scrutiny Committee.