Joan MacNaughton CB

Joan MacNaughton is an influential figure in energy and climate policy. With extensive board experience in the public and private sectors, she is a Non Executive Director of En+ Group PLC (chairing their Health and Safety Committee), and is Chair of The Climate Group, an international not for profit helping businesses and governments to accelerate climate action. She is Chair of the International Advisory Board of the Energy Academy of Europe; a member of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change (at LSE and Imperial College); the Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis in Colorado; and the Strategic Advisory Board of Engie UK PLC. Before her career in business, (with Alstom Power CA), Joan was the most senior official responsible for UK energy policy as Director General of Energy in the then Department of Trade and Industry (2002-2007). There, she led work to reshape UK energy policy, to craft the Clean Energy Action Plan agreed at the G8 Gleneagles Summit, and to advance the EU energy agenda during the UK Presidency of the EU in 2005. From 2004 to 2006, she was Chair of the Governing Board of the International Energy Agency, leading a review of the IEA's strategy and the activation of the emergency response arrangements to the oil supply disruption caused by Hurricane Katrina. She is a former Governor of the Argonne National Energy Laboratory and a Council Member of Warwick University. For the World Energy Council, she chaired the annual assessment of countries' energy policies (the 'Trilemma'). She is Past President and an Honorary Fellow of the Energy Institute; also a Distinguished Fellow of the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils, the Institute of Energy Economics of Japan, and Fellow of the International Emissions Trading Association. She is a Companion of the Order of the Bath.