Independent Stakeholder Group (ISG) Members

Managing Director, Products and Services & National Risk Severity Assessment Steering Group​  MET Office​

Simon Brown is Managing Director of Products & Services at the Met Office, responsible for its customer-facing activities and a £350m portfolio. He is leading work to increase the value delivered from weather and climate science, data and modelling, including for critical national infrastructure and the energy sector.​

With a background spanning utilities, digital transformation and public services, Simon brings a strong interest in how evidence, innovation and stakeholder insight can support resilient services and deliver better outcomes for consumers and society​

Director of Strategy & Policy,​  EDF Energy​

Josh has responsibility across the company’s broad activities in the UK, including nuclear, renewables, retail and energy services. Prior to EDF, Josh was a partner at the business advisory firm Flint Global for five years. Prior to joining Flint, he was Energy Advisor to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. In this role he provided expert policy and strategic advice to both Greg Clark and subsequently Andrea Leadsom on all major energy and climate issues.​

Previously he held a number of other senior roles at the centre of Government, including spending three years in the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit in No10 Downing Street working on energy and environment issues. He was also Head of the Energy Policy team in HM Treasury.​

CEO nLighten Data Centres, NED at Pure Data Centres Group​

Dawn is the CEO of nLighten operating a pan-European network of edge data centres and a NED of Pure DC building and operating hyperscale data centres globally. Before joining the DC Industry, she held senior engineering appointments across several critical infrastructure industries including leading a £multi-billion transformation at National Grid and as the Engineering Director at Gatwick Airport and Merlin Entertainments. ​

She was appointed a Dame Commander of the British Empire for services to engineering in the King’s New Years Honours 2023.​

Chief Executive Officer, Fuel Bank Foundation​

Matt is a leading advocate for consumer-focused change in the energy and water sectors. With a career spanning offshore gas storage, energy networks and retail, he has driven commercial, policy, and operational improvements to ensure critical services deliver real value for customers.​

He founded and leads the award-winning Fuel Bank Foundation, which has supported over 2 million people through a network of 850 Fuel Banks, providing emergency energy assistance and enabling access to advice and guidance.​

As a non-exec consumer champion, Matt advises and challenges cross the sector to improve outcomes and eliminate detriment. He chairs the Energy Switch Guarantee, sits on SP Energy Networks’ & Electricity North West’s Independent Stakeholder Group and independently chairs the Scottish Government’s Fuel Poverty Advisory Panel, offering strategic counsel to ministers on poverty reduction plans.​

Commissioner, ​ National Preparedness Commission, Connected Places Catapault, Board member

Carolyn has  a portfolio of Non Executive roles and is a Commissioner on the National Preparedness Commission whose objective is to help the UK to be prepared to avoid, mitigate, respond to and recover from major shocks, threats and challenges. ​

Throughout her career she has employed systems thinking to develop and advocate for safe, inclusive, healthy  and resilient places.  She has spoken at conferences around the world on smart cities and on the concept of healing cities to repair damage caused by conflict, natural disasters, climate change and industrialisation where this is causing issues such as crime, lack of community and inequality. ​​

Head of Industrial Strategy, ​CBI​

Mark heads up the CBI’s policy team covering industrial strategy, infrastructure & planning and English devolution, helping and advising the central and regional governments in shaping the levers that unlock growth and investment across the UK. ​

The CBI is the UK’s leading business organisation, representing firms nationwide and championing growth, investment and competitiveness. Our current focus is reducing the cost of doing business, speeding up infrastructure delivery, and keeping the UK at the cutting edge of global innovation​

Chief Executive Officer, ADE​

Aaron is Interim CEO of ADE where he works to bridge the gaps between industry and policymakers, to ensure the roles of flexibility and low carbon technologies are optimised, so that every industrial site, business and home has access to a cost-effective pathway to net zero.​

Before ADE, Aaron accumulated two decades’ experience developing energy policy in the heart of Westminster. He worked with ministers, researchers, technical experts, industry leaders and consumers to ensure policy decisions are based on the best evidence available, and that policies are designed to effectively deliver their intended outcomes. ​

Group Chief Executive, Renewable Energy Association​

Trevor Hutchings is REA Group Chief Executive and brings a wealth of policy, industry and commercial experience across the clean energy transition and circular economy. Trevor's previous roles include the UK civil service, European Commission, global not-for-profit and international consultancy firms. He was also chair of the Green Purposes Company set up by the UK government to safeguard the green mission of the world’s first Green Investment Bank.​

He is a Fellow at the Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals, a Fellow at the Energy Institute, and holds the IoD’s certificate in corporate governance. Under Trevor’s leadership, the REA is a leading voice for clean energy and the circular economy, helping grow this vital sector of the UK economy. ​

Chief Executive, Centre for Sustainable Energy​

Janine is Chief Executive of the Centre for Sustainable Energy (CSE), a national charity that helps people and organisations across the UK tackle fuel poverty and respond to the climate emergency. With more than 30 years' experience in the energy sector, she brings extensive expertise in community and local energy, alongside a deep understanding of the challenges facing fuel poor households and the issues associated with delivering a fair energy transition.​

In addition to NESO's ISG, Janine is a member of National Grid's Distribution System Operator Advisory Panel. She also chairs Retrofit West CIC and is a non-executive director of a community benefit society that has developed, owns and operates two 500kW wind turbines.​

Chief Executive Officer, E.ON UK​

After a career spanning over 20 years working for major UK and international organisations, Chris joined E.ON in 2014 where he undertook a number of leadership roles both in the UK and internationally before being appointed Executive Board Member (Chief People Officer) in 2018. Chris was appointed E.ON UK’s Chief Executive Officer in 2023. Chris believes that energy is central to people’s lives and that brings an incredible responsibility. There are real challenges - in the short-term making energy more affordable and longer term, the urgent need to decarbonise our economy. By tackling these challenges together, we have the opportunity to deliver for customers and make a difference to our society.​

Having achieved considerable success in business transformation, Chris has vast experience in developing the culture and diversity of businesses to reflect that of their market, deliver on ESG commitments and create social value. Chris attended both Exeter University and the University of Glamorgan.​

Chief Executive Officer, ENGIE​

Miya has held the role of UK CEO at ENGIE since December 2023, representing the company, leading its strategy, and supporting growth. She also sits on the Executive Committee of ENGIE’s Energy Management entity, supervising commercial origination, portfolio optimisation and trading activities across the UK and Europe.​

Miya has 25 years of professional experience, with two decades at ENGIE in the energy industry. Over this time, she has held executive positions across France, Romania and the UK, in Retail B2C / B2B, Energy Management and Corporate Projects, across both gas and power markets. Miya began her career as a strategy consultant at Roland Berger and holds a MSc in business and management from ESCP Business School. One of the few female UK CEOs in the industry and with a multicultural background, Miya is a strong advocate of diversity and inclusion in the energy sector.​

Miya is an Energy UK Board Member and a Member of the Energy Leaders Coalition. She also sits as Chair of the POWERful Women's Leadership Coalition.​

Chief Executive Officer,​ Good Energy​

Nigel joined Good Energy as CEO in May 2021 to lead the company’s development as an innovator in energy services at the forefront of the transition to net zero. As an experienced senior executive with a strong commercial, digital, and operational track record spanning over 25 years, Nigel is leading the company’s mission to help one million homes and businesses cut their carbon by 2025. Before joining Good Energy Nigel served as Chief Commercial Officer of Moneysupermarket Group plc. Prior to this, he held senior roles at Expedia Inc., including President of eBookers and Chief Marketing Officer of Hotels.com.​

He spent a decade of his early career at Pearson plc, including a period leading the digital operations of the Financial Times, and began working life at McKinsey and Company. He holds an MA and M.Phil from Oxford University and an MBA from INSEAD. Nigel is currently a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Remuneration Committee at Mobico Group PLC.​

Chief Commercial Officer,​ National Gas​

Ian Radley is Chief Commercial Officer at National Gas, where he leads the company's commercial activities, National Gas Metering, Corporate Affairs and Gas System Operation for Great Britain's national gas network. With more than 2 decades of experience across the energy sector, he has held senior leadership roles spanning commercial development, regulation, strategy and business transformation.​

Throughout his career, Ian has worked at the forefront of energy market and policy development, supporting investment in critical infrastructure and the transition to a secure, lower-carbon energy system. He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.​

Global Chairman of Banking,​ Barclays Investment Bank​

Iain has 30 years’ investment banking experience advising clients primarily in the power, utilities and infrastructure sectors in the UK and across Europe​

Recent roles include advising the UK Government on raising equity for the Sizewell C new nuclear plant; KKR on the sale of energy from waste business Viridor; I Squared on the sale of Irish utility Energia; Pennon on its water company acquisitions and equity capital raises; Fortum in relation to the restructuring of Uniper; and National Grid on its £7bn rights issue, the acquisition of WPD, sale of NECO and sale of National Gas.​

Iain joined Barclays in 2010 and previously worked at Nomura and Morgan Stanley. ​

Professor of Energy Systems,​ Imperial College​

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

He is co-director of the joint Imperial-Tsinghua Research Centre on Intelligent Power and Energy Systems, member of the UK Smart System Forum, member of the European Technology and Innovation Platform for Smart Networks for the Energy Transition, and Member of the Joint EU Programme in Energy Systems Integration of the European Energy Research Alliance. ​

Director for Energy Transition,​ University of Aberdeen​

John is Aberdeen University’s Director for Energy Transition having been at Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt universities, where he was their Chief Scientist. He has led the GeoNetZero Centre of Doctoral Training, a £22M academic-industry pan-UK partnership.​

John was President of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, was on the Scottish Science Advisory Council, populates the UK Subsurface Task Force, and chairs the National Energy Skills Accelerator, which secured £1M from the Scottish Government to up- and re-skill workers for careers in renewable energy. An unusual fact is that John was an international soccer referee.​

Chief Strategy Officer,​ SSE ​

Deepa Venkatasweran is the Chief Strategy Officer at SSE overseeing Group Strategy and Energy Economics. Deepa has over 20 years of experience in Utilities & Clean Energy built across a career spanning management consulting and equity research.​ Prior to joining SSE in September 2026, Deepa was the Head of European Utility & Clean Energy research at Bernstein (an independent premier equity research firm) where she joined in 2013. While at Bernstein, Deepa has advised institutional investors and authored several equity research notes on European Utilities, including SSE, as well as thematic research on grids, renewables, decarbonisation and the energy transition. Deepa was ranked number 3 in Extel’s 2026 investor survey.​

Prior to Bernstein, Deepa was a Junior partner at McKinsey focussing on the Utilities sector helping corporates on topics across the utility value chain on strategy & growth, corporate finance, regulation of networks and power market design. She was also a member of the leadership team in McKinsey’s Utilities & Regulatory practices.​

Co-Executive Director, Community Energy Wales ​

Leanne Wood has been co-executive director of Community Energy Wales since 2022. She was the leader of Plaid Cymru from 2012-2018, and Senedd Member for the Rhondda. Before election to the Senedd, she worked as a probation officer, a women’s aid support worker and a tutor with Cardiff University.​

Editor,​ New Power Report​

Janet Wood has been a journalist covering the energy sector for more than 30 years, editing magazines including New Power Report, Utility Week and Asian Electricity and is now a freelance journalist for publications such as Freight Carbon Zero. She is a member of the Cadent Gas Customer Challenge Group and SPEN DSO Advisory Group. She was previously a member of SPEN’s Independent Net Zero Advisory Group.​

She is a Trustee at National Energy Action and Director for Community Engagement at Sustainable Energy 24 and is a Council Member at the British Institute for Energy Economics.​

Chief Executive Officer,​ Centre for Net Zero​

Lucy Yu is CEO and founder at Centre for Net Zero, Octopus Energy Group’s not-for-profit AI and data-driven research institute advancing tech-driven energy systems that benefit humanity. Centre for Net Zero’s research has been accepted by leading global proceedings, including the What Works Climate Solutions Summit, a high-level conference for evidence-based climate policy.​

Lucy has 20 years’ experience building and scaling global consumer-facing and deep tech ventures in artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles and future mobility, climate and clean energy, and developing tech policy and regulation for the UK government (Cabinet Office; Centre for Connected & Autonomous Vehicles; Department for Transport), European Commission, and the UN. ​