Professor Jim Watson - Keynote Speaker

Jim Watson is Professor of Energy Policy and Research Director at the Institute of Sustainable Resources, University College London (UCL). He was previously Research Director and Director of the UK Energy Research Centre from 2013 to 2019, and Director of the Sussex Energy Group, University of Sussex from 2008 to 2013. He has over 20 years’ research experience on climate change, energy and innovation policy. He frequently advises UK government departments and other organisations, including as a Specialist Adviser with three UK Parliamentary committees and an expert lead with the UK’s national citizens assembly on climate change. He also has extensive international experience, including over ten years working on energy scenarios and energy innovation policies in China and India and a period as a Visiting Scholar at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He is a judge for the Queens Awards (on sustainable development), an executive committee member of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, and the chair of the technical advisory group for the World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP).

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