Future Fuels 2016: Automobile, Marine and Aviation

John Cooper: FuelsEurope and Concawe, Director General

John Cooper was appointed Director General, FuelsEurope and Concawe in April 2015. He started his career in the motor industry working on future powertrains and after three years moved to BP Downstream where he now has 27 years of experience. His previous role was leading BP’s compliance strategy for renewables regulation. He has also had business leadership roles in aviation fuels and lubricants, transport energy policy, and fuels technology in the UK and USA, and has represented the UK fuels industry at the UK Automotive Council Technology Group. He holds a BA in Engineering from Cambridge University and chairs the Board of Industrial Advisors at Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Roger Cracknell: Technology Expert for Combustion Chemistry - Global Fuels Technology Group, Shell Global Solutions

Roger Cracknell is Shell’s Technology Expert for Combustion Chemistry in the Global Fuels Technology team. Roger drives the technology thinking and anticipates trends and technology needs in areas related to Combustion Chemistry.

Roger is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Leeds, and Honorary Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Birmingham. He has been awarded the 2010 Sugden Prize for the most significant UK contribution to combustion research and the 2014 SAE Arch T. Colwell Merit Award.

Richard Mills: Strategy Director, Boeing

Richard Mills is responsible for development and implementation of Boeing’s business strategy for the UK and Ireland at a corporate level as well playing a leadership role in business unit initiatives. His work has covered evaluating opportunities in core and adjacent markets, supply chain initiatives, university relations strategy and environmental strategy.

Richard also has a pan-European role on environmental policy and strategy. His responsibilities include facilitating the activities of the European section of the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group (SAFUG,) an airline-led group focused on accelerating the development and commercialisation of sustainable aviation biofuels. He also helped found the Nordic Initiative for Sustainable Aviation.

Richard Bruce: Office of Low Emissions Vehicles (OLEV), Director

Richard Bruce has been head of OLEV in the UK since 2012. OLEV is a cross-Government team comprising people and funding from the Departments for Transport, Business, Innovation and Skills as well as Energy and Climate Change. OLEV’s role is to support the early market for ultra-low emission vehicles, maximising the benefits from this transition for the UK economy and taking forward the Government’s policy of reducing transport emissions to address concerns over carbon, air quality and energy security.

Rob Wakely: Head of Low Carbon Fuels Division, Energy Technology and International Directorate, Department for Transport (DfT)

Rob Wakely heads up the Low Carbon Fuels Division in the UK Department for Transport, leading strategy and policy delivery on the EU Renewable Energy and Fuel Quality Directives, and the Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation Unit, which operates the UK biofuels mandate and sustainability compliance. Current strategic and policy work streams include working across Government, with industry and NGOs to plan the UK’s biofuels strategy, and encourage the development of advanced biofuels from waste.

Jonathan Murray: Policy and Operations Director, Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP)

Jonathan Murray is an environmental economist with over 20 years’ experience working in the automotive and fuel industries, including time with Energy Saving Trust, the Motor Industry Research Association and Total Oil. His experience involves developing policy, designing and implementing programmes to promote markets for environmental vehicles, technologies and fuels. In 2005, Jonathan joined LowCVP.

During his time there he has successfully introduced consumer labels, encouraged the introduction of low carbon buses, helped shape policy to support innovation and developed programmes to encourage low carbon commercial vehicles. He is currently supporting the DfT in developing policy to deliver on targets for the Renewable Energy and Fuel Quality Directives by 2020, and policy framework to encourage innovation and deployment of future low carbon fuels and infrastructure.

Timothy Wilson: Principal Specialist Engineer on Marine Fuels, Lubes and Exhaust Emissions, Lloyd's Register (LR)

Tim Wilson has spent the past 20 years working with Lloyd’s Register’s Fuel Oil Bunker and Advisory service, after 20 years as a marine engineer. He is currently the Principal Specialist on fuels lubricants and exhaust emissions within the LR Ship Performance Group, focusing on effective fuel management from the bunker manifold to the exhaust stack, evaluating the best approaches to optimising fuel efficiency. This includes the assessment and independent validation of alternative fuels and novel technologies in a company’s efforts to achieve environmental compliance on exhaust emissions.

Tim also participated as the Rapporteur for the European Sustainable Shipping Forum (ESSF) Implementation Sub Group; formed for the development of the Sulphur Directive Implementation Act which was published in February 2015.

Nils-Olof Nylund: Research Professor for Energy Use in Transport and Engine Technology, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Nils-Olof Nylund graduated with a Doctor of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering (Internal Combustion Engines) from Helsinki University of Technology. His current position is as Research Professor for Energy Use in Transport and Engine Technology at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.

Since 1998, he has been either Chairman or Vice Chairman of the IEA Implementing Agreement on Advanced Motor Fuels (AMF). In addition, he also has been the IEA End-Use Working Party (EUWP) Vice Chairman for Transport since 2007.

Philippa Oldham: Head of Transport and Manufacturing, Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Philippa Oldham is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with a background working within the defence, aerospace and automotive sectors. Philippa joined the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) in May 2011, and acts as a voice for the Institution on behalf of their 113,000 international members. Her work helps raise the profile of engineers developing safe and efficient transport systems with less congestion and emissions, whilst creating wealth and employment. Publishing policy statements and reports on topics including autonomous and driverless cars, life-cycle analysis, manufacturing a successful economy, intelligent transport, intelligent society and energy options for our transport modes.

Daniel White: Managing Director, The Behaviouralist

Daniel White is co-founder of The Behaviouralist, a company linking academic research and commercial application of behavioural science. For most of his career, Dan has worked in the environmental and energy sector, devising and delivering successful innovations, such as abseiling insulation. Over the last 10 years, Dan has been at the cutting-edge of behavioural science and field experiments for energy efficiency in the UK, working with academics at LSE, Oxford and the University of Chicago. He is currently developing research products to frame incentive feedback to airline cabin crew to enable better fuel efficiency decisions.