Professor Geoffrey Maitland – Professor of Energy Engineering (Chair)
Geoff Maitland is Professor of Energy Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering. His career has spanned academia and industry, spending 20 years in oil and gas with oilfield services company Schlumberger as a research director, and over 20 years at Imperial, first as a young lecturer from 1974 to 1985 and then from 2005 in his current post. His research is concerned with how, as we transition to net-zero by reducing fossil fuel use for energy, industrial processes and hydrogen, we eliminate their carbon emissions until they are phased out by using Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). Since 2005 he has been Director of several research programmes on decarbonisation of fossil fuels sponsored by Shell:
- Clean Fossil Fuels Grand Challenge 2006-11
- Qatar Carbonates and Carbon Storage Research Centre (QCCSRC) 2008-18 – jointly with Qatar Petroleum
- Digital Rocks Programme 2016-20
Abhijay Sood – Imperial College Union President
Abhijay Sood is the elected President of Imperial College Union and is the Student Representative on Council. Abhijay is also a member of the Socially Responsible Investment Policy Group which was responsible for developing the College’s SRI Policy (launched in March 2020).
Professor Anna Korre – Co-Director, Energy Futures Lab
Professor Anna Korre is co-Director of Energy Futures Lab and Professor of Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London. Her research focus is in the areas of modelling risk and uncertainty and the environmental and life cycle assessment of engineering systems. She has led and participated in numerous industry, UKRI, BEIS, The Crown Estate and EU funded projects developing engineering tools to assess the impacts of the minerals and energy industries in terms of operational performance, environmental footprint and cost. Anna has previously received funding from the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI), BP, Eni, the BG Group, Scottish Power and Vattenfall to carry out life cycle assessment research. The most recent of these, with OGCI, focused on the life cycle techno-economic assessment of greenhouse gas mitigation options in the natural gas value chain and analysis of greenhouse gas emissions of global natural gas supply chains.
Alyssa Gilbert – Director of Policy and Translation, Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment
Alyssa Gilbert is the Director of Policy and Translation at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial where she connects relevant research across the university with policy-makers and businesses to make an impact. She has a background in policy analysis as an environmental consultant.
Professor Tim Green – Co-Director, Energy Futures Lab
Tim Green is Co-director of Energy Futures Lab and Professor of Electrical Power Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He has been a member of staff at Imperial since 1996. His research is in how electricity grids are to be transformed to operate with very high fractions of variable renewable generation including issues of ensuring stability and seeking new forms of flexibility to facilitate grid optimisation. He also leads collaboration across seven departments on planning low-carbon energy systems. Between 2005 and 2010 he was part of a BP-funded research project on Urban Energy Systems and between 2005 and 2006 led a BP-funded research project exploring replacing AC building supplies with low-voltage DC.
Professor Frank Kelly - Humphrey Battcock Chair of Environment and Health
Frank Kelly holds the Humphrey Battcock Chair in Community Health and Policy at Imperial, where he is Director of the Environmental Research Group, Director of the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit on Environment and Health and Deputy Director of the MRC-PHE Centre for Environment & Health. Frank leads a substantial research activity which spans all aspects of air pollution research from toxicology to science policy. He has led studies of the urban airshed within London including the impact of the introduction of London’s Congestion Charging Zone and Low Emission Zone. He is past Chairman of the British Association for Lung Research and he has provided policy support to the WHO on air pollution issues. He has chaired COMEAP, the UK’s Department of Health & Social Care Expert Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants for the last 9 years and he is a member of the US Health Effects Institute Review Committee.
Professor Nick Jennings – Vice-Provost (Research and Enterprise)
Nick Jennings is the Vice-Provost for Research and Enterprise and Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Imperial.
Professor Patrick Bolton – Professor of Finance and Economics, Business School
Patrick Bolton is Professor at Imperial and the Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business at Columbia University. He is a Co-Director of the Center for Contracts and Economic Organization at the Columbia Law School, a past President of the American Finance Association, a Fellow of the Econometric Society (elected 1993), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2009), and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (elected 2013). His areas of interest are in Contract Theory, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Banking, Sovereign Debt, Political Economy, Law and Economics, and Sustainable Investing. He has written a leading graduate textbook on Contract Theory with Mathias Dewatripont, MIT Press (2005) and The Green Swan: Central Banking and Financial Stability in the Age of Climate Change, with Morgan Despres, Luiz Pereira Da Silva, Frederic Samama, and Romain Svartzman. Among the books he co-edited are Sovereign Wealth Funds and Long-Term Investing, with Frederic Samama and Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University Press (2011); and Coping with the Climate Crisis: Mitigation Policies and Global Coordination, with Rabah Aretzki, Karim El Aynaoui and Maurice Obstfeld, Columbia University Press, 2018.
Professor Ralf Toumi – Co-Director, Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment
Ralf Toumi is Co-Director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, supported by the Grantham Foundation. Ralf has worked extensively with BP PLC on climate change adaptation from 2006-2016.