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Opening plenary session - Biographies
Professor Duncan Botting - Business Innovation and Growth Director, Power, Industry and Utilities - Parsons Brickerhoff
Duncan currently holds the posts of Business Innovation and Growth Director at Parsons Brinckerhoff, Executive Chairman of the Scottish European Green Energy Centre and Managing Director Global Smart Transformation Limited. In these roles he works closely with customers, academia, industry, government and regulators to deliver innovative technical, commercial, environmentally balanced and culturally acceptable solutions to market challenges. His previous roles included Managing Director, ITI Energy (a research institute) and with ABB as Head of Technology & Business Development. He has over 35 years experience covering the complete spectrum of technical and commercial roles from apprentice to boardroom. He is a visiting professor at Imperial College London and the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
He is an active member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET, formerly the IEE) and is involved in many influential panels, advisory boards and committees at a National, European and International level. He is engaged across the energy domain from market design to primary fuels, generation (including CCS), transmission and distribution to end user issues. As an active member of the IET Energy Policy Panel, Vice-Chair of the European Technology Platform for “SmartGrids”, DECC/Ofgem Smart Grid Forum and other affiliations he is helping to shape future thinking in the energy sector. He is also a founding member and served on the shadow board of the National Skills Academy for Power.
In the area of energy and climate security Duncan has been a thought leader for over 20 years and has been contributing to national critical infrastructure working groups (DoE, UK, Asia), global corporate R&D and scenario building to inform and challenge board level decisions.
Charles Hendry MP - Minister of State - DECC
Charles Hendry has been Member of Parliament for Wealden since 2001. Prior to joining the Government, he was Shadow Minister for Energy. He had previously held the position of Shadow Minister for Energy, Industry and Postal Affairs. Before this, Charles was the Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party (2003-05), Shadow Minister for Young People (2002-05) and Shadow Minister for Industry and Enterprise (May – December 2005).
From 1992-97, Charles Hendry was Member of Parliament for High Peak, Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party (1995-1997) and Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Homelessness (1992-1996). Following the 1997 General Election, he was appointed Chief of Staff to the Rt Hon William Hague during his leadership of the Conservative Party, before establishing and leading the Business Liaison Unit at Conservative Party headquarters.
Charles Hendry’s business career has mostly been spent in Public Relations, working with the international communications groups Ogilvy & Mather PR and Burson-Marsteller. He was Special Adviser to the Rt Hon John Moore MP as Secretary of State for Social Services (1988) and to the Rt Hon Tony Newton MP as Minister of State for Trade & Industry and then Secretary of State for Social Security (1988-90). He was Founder/Chairman/Chief Executive of The Agenda Group (1999-2005), a specialist consultancy helping company Chairmen and Chief Executives with their corporate networking.
He was born and brought up in Sussex and attended Rugby School from 1972-1976 before going on to study for a degree in Business Studies at Edinburgh University from 1977-1981.
Andrew Jamieson – ScottishPower
Since joining ScottishPower in 1988, Andrew has held key roles in engineering, marketing and financial planning. From 1997 to 2004 Andrew led ScottishPower’s Investor Relations department, communicating with institutional shareholders and analysts around the globe. In 2004 he moved to ScottishPower Renewables where he is responsible for energy policy and regulation. Andrew is active in the UK’s renewable energy trade associations, being elected Chairman of Renewable UK this summer and is a board member and former chairman of Scottish Renewables. In 2009 he accepted an invitation from the First Minister to join the newly established Energy Advisory Board. In 2010 Andrew co-chaired joint industry / government working groups to produce the Scottish Offshore Wind Industry Route Map, and the Scottish National Infrastructure Plan which set out key milestones to achieving thriving offshore and marine power industries in Scotland.
Niall Stuart - Chief Executive - Scottish Renewables
Niall has been Chief Executive of Scottish Renewables, the representative voice of the renewable energy industry in Scotland, since September 2009.
He is responsible for leading the organisation’s work to achieve the optimal legislative, regulatory and financial framework to deliver the growth of the renewable energy industry in Scotland.
A member of the First Minister’s Energy Advisory Board, Niall co-chairs the Forum for Renewable Energy Development in Scotland (FREDS).
He was previously Press and Government Affairs Manager at the Scottish Council for Development and Industry (SCDI), the leading independent economic development network.
Before joining SCDI in October 2007, Niall spent five years at the Federation of Small Businesses, where he ran the Scottish Press and Parliamentary Office, successfully delivering a number of the organisation’s key lobbying objectives. Previously he worked for Anne Begg MP at Westminster and in her constituency of Aberdeen South.
Sir Ian Wood - Chairman - John Wood Group PLC
Born and educated in Aberdeen, Ian Wood graduated from Aberdeen University in 1964 with a First Class Honours Degree in Psychology. In 1984 he was awarded an Honorary Degree of LL.D from Aberdeen University, an Honorary DBA from Robert Gordon University (RGU), Aberdeen in 1998 and in 2002 an Honorary Doctor of Technology from Glasgow Caledonian University.
Chairman and Chief Executive, John Wood Group PLC since January 1982 and Chairman since January 2007, the company is quoted on the LSE and employs 29,000 people in 50 countries worldwide with annual sales of US$5bn. Chairman of J W Holdings Limited, one of Scotland’s largest fishing groups and Chancellor of RGU.
Current and past appointments: membership of PILOT (joint Government/Oil & Gas Industry Initiative) and joint Chairman of the Oil & Gas Industry Leadership Team; Chairman of Scottish Enterprise; Chairman of the British Trade International Oil & Gas Export Board (previously OSO); member of the Scottish Sea Fisheries Council.
Awards: Joint winner of Scottish Business Achievement Award Trust in 1992; winner of the Service Category Award in 1992 Corporate Elite Leadership Awards: Elite “World Player” Award from Business Insider in 1996; Chief Executive of the Year Award from Business Insider/PriceWaterhouseCoopers in 2003; Entrepreneurial Exchange Philanthropist of the Year award in 2008; inducted into the Offshore Energy Centre’s Hall of Fame, Houston in 2009 and awarded the Energy Institute’s Cadman Medal in 2010.
He was awarded the CBE in the 1982 New Year's Honours List and a Knighthood in 1994.
Chairman of The Wood Family Trust, established by Sir Ian and family in 2007, a Scottish-based charity with a global outlook.
