Lord Whitty (Chair)
Larry has worked in aircraft industry and the Civil Service. His background includes: Trade union officer at TUC and GMB. General Secretary Labour Party 1985/94. Peer 1996. Minister for Roads, waterways and Energy efficiency DETR 1998/2001; Minister for Food, Farming and Sustainable Energy Defra 2001/2005. Privy Councillor 2005. Chair Consumer Focus (formerly National Consumer Council) 2006 - 2011; Member of Board of Environment Agency 2006 - 2012; President CHPA 2005 - 2011.
Dr Anne Feltham
Anne was John Chesshire's partner for nearly 40 years. She is highly supportive of the Trust, believing that it will support key areas of John's work which he held dear, and had developed over his working life. Anne is an education specialist, having worked most recently in both local and national contexts in advisory and inspection roles. As a teacher she specialised in languages, and continues to take a keen interest in international education initiatives.
Dr Brenda Boardman, MBE
Brenda is an Emeritus Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute
following her retirement in September 2008. She is also a Visiting Professor at
the University of Exeter. At the ECI, Brenda was the former head of the Lower
Carbon Futures team and a co-director of the UK Energy Research Centre. Her
main research focus is on how to achieve demand reduction in energy across the
UK economy, but in particular the built environment. Brenda's main research focus is on energy efficiency and the way that
energy is used in British homes, particularly by low-income households, i.e.
fuel poverty. She considers the economic, social and technical aspects of the
subject and her work has a strong policy emphasis. She is widely viewed as one of the most experienced in her field
and was awarded an MBE in 1998 for her work on energy efficiency and received
the Energy Institute's Melchett Medal in the same year.
Brenda's second book, Fixing Fuel Poverty: Challenges and solutions
examines why the numbers of households in fuel poverty are rising - currently
5m in the UK - despite the government's legal obligation to eradicate fuel
poverty by 2016. Brenda has given a series of presentations about the book to
various professional and academic audiences in the UK, in Brussels and in
Prague. 
Jenny Saunders has been
Chief Executive of National Energy Action since 2007, and prior to that was
Director of Communications for the charity.
She is a member of the UK
Government's Fuel Poverty Advisory Group; Ofgem’s Sustainable Development Group;
North East Energy Leadership Council; and the Advisory Board for the Energy
Institute at the University of Durham.
She is a Board Director
of National Grid Affordable Warmth Solutions Community Interest Company, sits
on Centrica’s Corporate Responsibility Advisory Group and chairs SSE’s Customer
Forum.
Jenny is a trustee of
Energy Action Scotland, and the Chesshire Lehmann Fund. Having helped to
establish a grant-making fund at the Community Foundation for Tyne & Wear
and Northumberland to assist women to achieve their full potential, Jenny
served on the Women’s Fund Committee for 5 years from 1999-2004. She served as a trustee of the British Gas
Energy Trust for 6 years until October 2010 and is chair of a local community
group in Newcastle.
A language graduate of
the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Jenny worked in Norway and in youth and
community training programmes prior to joining NEA. She was awarded an OBE in
the 2013 New Year Honours List for her services to the fuel poor.
 Professor Jim Watson
Jim Watson is Research
Director of the UK Energy Research Centre and a Professor of Energy Policy at
the University of Sussex. He was Director of the Sussex Energy Group at Sussex
from Dec 2008 to Jan 2013. Jim has a first degree in engineering from Imperial
College London and a PhD in science and technology policy from Sussex. He has
20 years’ research experience on climate change, energy and innovation policy.
He frequently advises UK government departments and other organisations. He was
an advisor to the Government Office for Science for a Foresight project on
energy (2007-08), and has been a Specialist Adviser with House of Commons
Committees on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (2006-09) and Energy and
Climate Change (2010-11). Jim has extensive international experience, including
over ten years working on energy scenarios and energy innovation policies in
China and India. In 2008, he spent three months as a Visiting Scholar at the
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Jim is a council member of
the British Institute for Energy Economics, and was its chair in 2011. He is
also a member of DECC and Defra’s social science expert panel.
Gordon Tilett
After graduating in Economics from University Of Sussex, Gordon joined the Treasury Department of a multi-national oil company to assist in the raising of finance for their several North Sea Oil projects.In 1978 he joined the International Treasury Management Group of Marine Midland Bank where he was a regional manager in both Singapore and London managing a group of consultants that advised international clients on all aspects of their international currency exposures. Gordon subsequently worked for over twenty years in the Treasury Department of American Express Bank advising international clients on their investment portfolios. |
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