Experience

National Energy Action (NEA)

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Policy and Public Affairs

  • Jul 2021 - Present

• Policy Manager

  • Jul 2018 - Jul 2021

  Policy Manager within the NEA Policy and Research Directorate. Working to ensure a political, regulatory and market landscape that is favourable for fuel poor households. The role includes being a key advocate for fuel poor households in the development of energy markets and requires a thorough understanding of social policy as well as expertise in energy markets, regulation and policy.



E.ON UK

• United Kingdom
• Utilities
• 700 & Above Employee

• Energy Policy Manager

  • Jun 2017 - Jun 2018

  Leading the electricity policy team within the E.ON UK Regulatory and Political Affairs Department, with responsibility for managing policy risk for the UK business. The role required:• Understanding of energy policy and regulation in detail; • Communicating this to the business in simple terms to influence internal decision making;• Understanding from the business how policy and regulation could be improved to help E.ON and its customers; • Using this to build an E.ON view of the world and engage with external stakeholders (including government, Ofgem and National Grid) to influence further decision making, working towards favourable outcomes for E.ON and its customers.



E.ON

• Germany
• Utilities
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Consultant - System Solutions

  • Sep 2011 - Jun 2017

  Providing support to various areas of the E.ON business, focussed mainly on innovative sustainable technologies and strategies to implement them into the energy system. Responsible for winning internal consultancy work for the team

• Technology and Innovation Analyst (Secondment)

  • May 2012 - Jul 2012

  Within the secondment, two main projects were undertaken: - Development of a “Technology Cockpit” to be fed into GM board meetings to quickly inform of developments on key technologies; - Assistance to the creation of the downstream strategy for the R+D portfolio, including creating scenario planning for a system aggregator



E.ON Energy Trading

• Portfolio Optimization Analyst (Secondment)

  • Mar 2012 - May 2012

  During this secondment, several projects were undertaken, including: - Creation of a tool to report the movements in prices during the previous 24 hours to enable traders to deduce whether the market moved in the way in which they thought it would; - Delivery of a new way to calculate the real cost of power plants over/under delivering power to the market; - Delivery of a tool to assess the viability of using coal from locations other than the current, in case of low coal stocks. During this secondment, several projects were undertaken, including: - Creation of a tool to report the movements in prices during the previous 24 hours to enable traders to deduce whether the market moved in the way in which they thought it would; - Delivery of a new way to calculate the real cost of power plants over/under delivering power to the market; - Delivery of a tool to assess the viability of using coal from locations other than the current, in case of low coal stocks.