Alan Mortimer graduated from Glasgow University in 1987 with an Honours degree in Aeronautical Engineering. After four years at James Howden & Co. Ltd. in Glasgow, Alan joined ScottishPower, working in renewables development. His roles included Head of Wind Development where he developed the strategy for, and helped establish a 1,000MW onshore wind portfolio. In subsequent roles Alan was responsible for managing policy and strategic issues whilst maintaining responsibility for identifying new business opportunities in renewables, including SPR’s role in technology development programmes such as the Offshore Wind Accelerator, and marine renewables. Alan joined Wood Renewables in 2013 as Director of Innovation where his current role involves extending the company’s renewable energy activities in onshore wind, offshore wind (fixed and floating), solar, wave, tidal, hydrogen, heat and transport. His responsibilities also include developing and deploying the considerable resources of the Wood organisation on key decarbonisation challenges for all forms of energy with a particular focus on the growth of the company’s activities in clean hydrogen production, storage, transport and use.

Alan is Chief Technology Officer of Storegga and previously Managing Director of its subsidiary Pale Blue Dot Energy. The business is focussed fully on development of Net Zero Infrastructure including CCS, Hydrogen and Direct Air Capture. Storegga is the Lead Developer for the UK Acorn CCS and Hydrogen Projects. Alan is a geologist and reservoir engineer by background with a long career in the petroleum industry until he moved into the low carbon sector in 2007.

Following graduation from Aberdeen university, Gus started working for BG group some 20+ years ago. He has since performed a variety of roles in Energy distribution, from Asset management, network design, engineering policy, operations and strategy. For 6 years he headed up SGN’s Innovation & new technology team before being appointed Director of Energy Futures in 2018 with a remit to push the frontiers of decarbonisation of energy. Key breakthroughs have included Biomethane to gas grid (Didcot) the first in the UK, keyhole technology (the core & vac, iCore), Robotics, real-time networks and gas quality.

Working with UK and Scottish Governments, Gus is leading a number of priority projects for the decarbonisation of heat, industry, and energy systems including H100 Fife, which is a world first end to end demonstration of an end to end hydrogen system from turbine tip to burner in the home, which forms part of the UK’s ten point plan.

Barry directs ScottishPower’s activities in hydrogen across the UK and Ireland, as part of a global Hydrogen Division within the Iberdrola Group. This focuses on the production of green hydrogen as a complementary method of decarbonisation, alongside electrification solutions. His previous roles include Head of Corporate Innovation, Sustainability and Quality which led strategic activities in the decarbonisation of transport, heat and other emerging technologies, as well as corporate initiatives aligned with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This followed several years in ScottishPower Renewables where Barry led activities in marine energy and wind innovations across the sector.

Bart Biebuyck is since 16 May 2016 the Executive Director of the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU), a public-private partnership aiming at facilitating the deployment of fuel cells and hydrogen technologies in Europe. Under his leadership, a strong emphasis on cooperation with cities and regions led to the creation of the European Hydrogen Valleys partnership with around 40 European regions. Dissemination of project results, building technology awareness and enhanced basic research became his key focusing points. Before the FCH JU, Bart Biebuyck was at the Fuel Cell department of Toyota Motor Europe where he held the position of Technical Senior Manager. His expertise in the automotive industry includes extensive knowledge related to the deployment of new technologies in the European market. It is as part of the Clean Energy Partnership (CEP) program in Berlin that Bart worked at reinforcing European trials for the Toyota Fuel Cell Vehicle. He also had the opportunity to develop and expand his expertise in Japan, where for two years he worked on the development of Toyota and PSA’s small vehicle. In addition to his industrial experience, Bart has been politically active in his local town since 2006. In 2013 he became the vice president of the City Council, responsible, among others, for the local economy and education. Bart’s term as the Executive Director of the FCH – JU was extended for four years until 15 May 2023.

Bruce is the Chair of Anderson Strathern. He is a partner in the corporate and commercial team and leads the energy sector group, as well as being a member of our Brexit group. He’s also a director of the Scottish Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association and a former charity trustee of the micro-certification scheme charitable foundation.

Highly experienced and regarded by his clients and peers in the corporate and energy fields, Bruce is also recognised in the independent legal directories, where he is noted as a lawyer who ‘consistently goes beyond client expectations’. When not pursuing his profession, Bruce is a committed follower of his home football team, Brechin City, and being a natural optimist, is sure that there is some silverware glimmering just over the horizon…

Clare leads Arup’s Scottish Energy business and is leading the design and development of SGN’s H100 project in Levenmouth Fife. This world first demonstration of hydrogen production and distribution will supply 100% green hydrogen to circa 300 homes for domestic use.

She has extensive experience in the Scottish and UK energy sector and has been central to the development of major energy infrastructure and innovation in the UK and Scotland. Clare’s current focus is on the transition of energy systems and developing solutions that cut across industries to enable deep decarbonisation of heat, transport and electricity, with a particular focus on hydrogen and offshore wind. Clare is also a Non Executive Director of Scottish Renewables.

Clare works closely with government and regulators to shape policy. She is currently advising Crown Estates Scotland on the development of the ScotWind leasing round and her team are leading the assessment of applications. She supported the Scottish Government in developing the evidence base to support the developing hydrogen policy with a particular focus on offshore wind and hydrogen production.

Clare has won several awards including the Top 50 women engineers in sustainability, the Karen Burt Memorial Award, and she has an honorary doctorate from the University of Vaasa.

Fiona Landy is the Delivery Manager for the Hydrogen Accelerator, based at the University of St Andrews. Originally from Aberdeen City Council working on the early stages of the Hyv.LoCity and HyTransit projects, Fiona was seconded to the Scottish Cities Alliance (SCA), a unique collaboration between the Scottish Government and the seven cities in Scotland. Fiona led the SCA’s Strategy ‘Kick Starting a Hydrogen Economy Across the Seven Cities’ and the FCH-JU JIVE/JIVE2 programme that the cities of Aberdeen and Dundee are partners in.

After joining the Hydrogen Accelerator last year Fiona continues to provide support and guidance to the public/private sectors in developing their decarbonisation strategies utilising hydrogen technologies and support opportunities for Scottish supply chain developments, skills, high value job creation and economic development.

Dr Graeme Sweeney is a Member of Scottish First Minister's Energy Advisory Board, as a leading authority on energy, fuels and climate change, drawing on his extensive international experience across all aspects of the oil, gas and renewable industries.

Dr Sweeney is also Chair of the Advisory Council of the European Technology and Innovation Platform of Zero Emission Plants (ZEP). ZEP's unique coalition of stakeholders includes utilities, petroleum companies, equipment suppliers, scientists, academics and environmental NGOs. ZEP has been instrumental in the development of the EU Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) programme, providing expert advice to the European Commission on all technical, technology, policy, commercial and other related issues. He has held this position since 2008.

Dr Sweeney is also Chair of the renewable fuel and energy storage start up Eneus Energy Ltd, Chair of The Scottish CCS Advisory Board, was a member of the EU Expert Group on the Sustainable Finance Taxonomy, is co-Chair of the Implementation Working Group on CCUS under The EU Strategic Energy Technology Plan, a member of the EU Expert Group on the Innovation Fund, a founding member of the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute, and has various Advisory Board roles in Sustainable Hydrogen.

Graham is a Vice President of DNV and is head of their UK Energy Transition and Innovation activity. Graham holds a 1st class honours degree in Mechanical Engineering and has been supporting customers in the energy industry for more than 30 years. Graham was the primary author of the oil & gas companion report supporting the DNV Energy Transition Outlook. He has also supported several clients in both the industrial and financial segments in decarbonisation considerations as part of purchaser and vendor due diligence reviews for mergers, acquisitions and disposals. Currently, Graham leads the DNV UK activities in hydrogen and CCUS, working with UK gas networks, industrial clusters, financiers and policy makers in examining the alternatives for deep decarbonisation. In 2020, Graham was elected as a Fellow of the Energy Institute in recognition of his work in the energy transition area.

Ivan McKee was appointed Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism and Enterprise in May 2021. He was previously the Minister for Trade, Investment and Innovation.

His career has involved a number of senior roles in manufacturing and business, managing companies in the UK as well as Poland, Finland, Croatia and Bosnia. Early in his career, Ivan spent two years with VSO in Bangladesh. He is currently a trustee of the charity CEI, which supports education and health projects in Bangladesh.

Ivan has been MSP for Glasgow Provan since May 2016. He was brought up in Glasgow where he studied at the University of Strathclyde. He also studied at the University of Newcastle.

James is a Senior Policy Advisor within BEIS’ Hydrogen Economy team. His remit covers supply and demand side strategic policy development, and progression of the UK’s hydrogen strategy. Working with industry, James is leading the delivery of the ‘2020s Roadmap’ – recently published as part of the UK Hydrogen Strategy. This will provide a blueprint for the delivery of our ambition for 5GW of low carbon hydrogen production capacity by 2030, alongside development of the wider hydrogen economy over the 2020s, positioning the hydrogen economy for ramp up to Carbon Budget 6 and net zero. ​

Jon is a confident, respected, and experienced professional in the hydrogen, chemicals, materials and precious / rare metals industry, with a proven record of technically-focussed, international business, and strategic development; change and innovation management; consultancy; and business start-ups. He is the Chief Commercial Officer with the UK’s leading green hydrogen developer, Protium Green Solutions Ltd, and is based in Orkney, where he played a leading role in the development of the islands’ hydrogen economy.

Jon has many years' experience working across industry sectors, with multi-disciplined teams and has a strong record of working with the academic community. He works at all levels in organisations; enjoys speaking at conferences; and is a Director of the Scottish Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association

Kevin is the originator and Project Director of ERM's innovative Dolphyn project for the production of bulk scale hydrogen from floating offshore wind. Kevin is ERM's Hydrogen lead for Northern Europe, advising Clients on Low Carbon Energy Transition strategy related to hydrogen solutions.

Kevin has over 30 years experience of energy consultancy. Much of this work has involved performing risk evaluations for completely new and novel facilities, working with Clients to ensure successful submission through the regulatory acceptance process. He leads several projects on bulk scale hydrogen transport and has recently been involved in providing strategic advice to a major US energy supplier on green hydrogen production from wind and solar (power to gas) and hydrogen transport (refuelling depot) projects.

Whilst at ERM, Kevin has been involved in hydrogen risk assessments for hydrogen production facilities, pipelines, storage facilities, hydrogen use in buildings and transport. Prior to joining ERM, Kevin worked as a Technical Risk consultant in AEA Technology’s Oil & Gas Business for 18 years, and before that, worked as a Process Risk Engineer at British Gas.

Mark Crowther read Chemistry at Magdalen College Oxford before joining the Coal Research Establishment, where he worked on coal liquefaction and gasification. Later, he became head of British Coal domestic and commercial technology developments, but foreseeing the challenges of this fuel, on privatisation in 1994 created Gastec at CRE Ltd.

In February 2012 he gave a lecture to DECC’s Scientific Advisor (the late Prof McKay) and his colleagues, where he proposed repurposing local gas distribution grids to hydrogen. This was well received, leading to the HyHouse study, and subsequently Kiwa Gastec acted as main contractor for the NGN Leeds H21 project. This was the world’s full scale design study to convert a city to hydrogen.

Mark has been the technical lead of the Government’s Hy4heat project which is working with appliance manufacturers to launch new domestic and commercial hydrogen appliances and is supporting SGN in their FEED study in Scotland. This will use an existing 7MW wind turbine to produce hydrogen which would be used in over 300 houses and thus effectively decarbonise them completely.

With a background in petrochemicals (at Sasol) and nearly two decades experience of working with hydrogen, Martin Hanton joined TÜV SÜD National Engineering Laboratory in 2018 to spearhead the diversification of the organisation beyond oil and gas. As a result, the organisation now has teams dedicated to clean fuels (hydrogen, ammonia, CCS), the water industry, life sciences & healthcare, and digital services & AI.

The focus for hydrogen and CCS is how accurate measurement, combined with standards and regulation, is a key enabler of a hydrogen economy, given that the majority of fiscal and financial transactions for these energy vectors will be based upon an accurate, traceable measurement of flow rate. Martin recently took up leadership of a new Green Energy and Sustainability (GES) business unit within TUV SUD UK, which will offer testing, inspection and certification services across the hydrogen supply chain, including hydrogen certification under CertifHy and CMS 70.

Dr Martin Hanton holds BSc and PhD degrees in Chemistry from the University of Leicester, and an MBA from the Open University with a specialisation in technology management. He is a Chartered Chemist, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry having been recipient of the RSC's 2011 'Young Industrialist' award, in part for his central role in the development and commercialisation of a new commodity chemical process, selective ethylene tetramerisation.

Nicolas Pocard, brings to Ballard more 20 years of experience in business development and marketing at international level. He joined the fuel cell industry in 2004 and Ballard Power Systems in 2012. Among his responsibilities, Nicolas looks after corporate market strategy, marketing activities, government relations and strategic partnerships for Ballard. Nicolas Pocard is the Vice-Chair of the Board of the Canadian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association (CHFCA) and a Board member of the California Hydrogen Business Council (CHBC) and of the Canadian Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC). He also represents Ballard with various Industry Associations and Government forums. Mr. Pocard holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from ESCOM (Paris) and a Master’s of Science from The Ohio State University (USA).

Nigel Holmes has extensive experience in low carbon energy generation, supply, and use, starting with the Central Electricity Generating Board where be also completed a PhD before moving to Scotland in 1988. He has been a member of the Scottish Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association (SHFCA) since 2005, and Chief Executive since April 2011. Over the past ten years the Association has grown significantly with the membership increasing from under 40 to over 150 members.

Norma Hogan is Senior Development Manager and lead for hydrogen activities at Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE). HIE is the local economic and community development agency for the north and west of Scotland, working in a diverse region which extends from Shetland to Argyll, and from the Outer Hebrides to Moray, covering more than half of Scotland's land mass. HIE helps build a prosperous, inclusive and sustainable economy across the Region, attracting more people to live, work, study, invest and visit.

Located on the north-western edge of Europe, Scotland is home to incredibly rich wind, wave and tidal resources. Its long indented coastline harbours, network of established test and deployment sites, which together offer the world’s most comprehensive route to develop, test and commercialise marine energy technologies, including offshore wind.

Paul is Senior Development Manager with Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and Cluster Manager for the DeepWind offshore wind supply chain cluster. Paul has been with HIE for over 19 years, most of that time ‘on loan’ to Scottish Development International covering both international trade and inward investment in offshore wind and marine energy.

Paul represents HIE on the Scottish Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association board, sits on the Scottish Offshore Wind Energy Council (SOWEC) Skills Group, past board member of Ocean Energy Europe, advisory board member for the Energy Technology Partnership and the Offshore Renewable Institute. He has also served as a member of the Scottish Government’s Marine Energy Group and Hydrogen Industry Group.

Councillor Philip Bell is a professional engineer (Eur Ing, BSc. CEng. MIET) who worked in the oil and gas industry for 35 years before becoming an elected member of Aberdeen City Council in 2017. He has worked on control and safety systems in Africa, North America, Dutch and UK sectors of the North Sea and on Russia’s Sakhalin island. He was elected a member of Aberdeen City Council in May 2017. He sits on 7 council committees and vice convenes the Operational Delivery committee. He is a member of the North east Scotland energy project (NESS), Northeast Transport Scotland (NESTRANS), Strategic development planning authority (SDPA) and the Stakeholder advisory group on the Crown Estates (SAGCE). He is a director of Aberdeen renewables energy group (AREG), a director of Aberdeen Science Centre and is Aberdeen’s spokesperson on hydrogen and waste. He is the ACC champion for powering Aberdeen and also ACC’s champion for the hydrogen transport economy for the North Sea region (HyTrEc2).

Professor Korre joined Imperial in October 1993 as a Marie Sklodowska Curie Research Fellow and became Energy Futures Lab’s first female Co-Director in September 2018. EFL is the College’s energy institute, established to address global energy challenges. Anna also heads the Minerals Energy and Environmental Engineering Research Group, developing engineering solutions to the supply of clean energy, the sustainable production of natural resources, and mitigating environmental impacts and risks. Her research focus is in the areas of modelling risk and uncertainty and the environmental and life cycle assessment of engineering systems.

Salah leads Howden’s global hydrogen business segment. With over 20 years of professional experience, he has delivered high profile green and blue hydrogen and ammonia including one of the largest projects in this space in the Middle East.

Prior to his current role with Howden, he held senior business and engineering positions in number of global companies such as Worley, Honeywell-UOP, AspenTech and ITM Power.

Salah holds a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Suez University where he is also a visiting lecturer for energy transition studies, as well as a master’s degree in Business Administration from University of Surrey in United Kingdom.

Stephen Learney is Vice President and General Manager of Haskel, a business of the Precision and Science Technologies Segment at Ingersoll Rand that supports global refuelling infrastructure for hydrogen mobility. With manufacturing sites in California and the UK, and a global sales network with offices in the USA, France, Spain, Middle East, Singapore, China, India and Australia, and channel partners in most countries around the world, Haskel is a global leader in high-pressure liquid and gas transfer and compression technology solutions for mission critical applications Utilising this technology, Haskel Hydrogen Systems’ innovative hydrogen fuelling solutions are critical project components, offering cost effective, scalable stations for cars, buses, trucks, trains and materials handling applications. Starting his career as a R&D scientist with Procter & Gamble, with a BSc. Honours in Applied Chemistry, Steve then worked in a range of global sales, marketing and product management roles before joining Haskel in 2006 as Managing Director. Since then Steve has gone onto lead the Haskel business in EMEA from 2008, and globally since 2014. Driving Haskel Hydrogen Systems growth globally, the business is focusing on supporting mobility infrastructure via the deployment of hydrogen refuelling stations. Haskel components have been used in over 200 hydrogen refuelling projects around the world, including one of the world’s largest refuelling stations in China and the first commercial hydrogen powered heavy vehicle refuelling station in Australia.

tuart holds a Master Degree in Business Administration and spent several years working as a lecturer in Project Management, Business Policy and Operations Management. Stuart joined the Scottish Government in 2005 from a background of air, rail and road freight transport logistics to manage major rail electrification projects and is now Head of Hydrogen Policy for the Scottish Government leading the development of policy in this exciting and ambitious area.

During his time as head of hydrogen policy the Scottish Government has commissioned and published a range of analysis and research on hydrogen including: the Scottish Hydrogen Assessment Report , the report of the study into Deep Carbonisation Pathways for Scottish Industries (considering hydrogen and electrification) and the Scottish Offshore Wind to Green Hydrogen Opportunity Assessment. All of which provided the evidence base to inform the publication of the Scottish Government’s Hydrogen Policy Statement in December 2020 announcing Scotland’s ambition of generating 5 Giga-Watts of renewable and low-carbon hydrogen by 2030. Following on from the publication of the policy statement the hydrogen policy team in Scottish Government is now preparing a Hydrogen Action Plan for Scotland which will be published in 2021.