Knowledge Leaders

AEA's reputation is built on a base of internationally renowned experts, with market leading knowledge across a number of key areas: combined heat and power, energy, energy policy, energy efficiency, resource efficiency, energy generating technologies, transport technologies and carbon capture and storage. By forming a panel with these knowledge leaders, AEA hopes to inform the global debate, and help people to adopt current best practice while contributing to the development of future solutions

Mahmoud Abu-Ebid - Combined Heat and Power (CHP)

Mahmoud is a Chief Consultant with overall responsibility for CHP business. He has over 18 years of practical experience of energy use in industry and buildings, with an in depth knowledge of CHP technologies, applications and Government Policies. Over this time he has developed a good knowledge of energy markets reforms and policies and gained experience in dealing with CHP developers, Energy Services companies as well as Government Departments and their agencies, local authorities and other public sector organisations.

As Chief Technical advisor to Defra, he provides policy and technical support on all CHP related aspects and represents Defra at a number of working groups dealing with CHP in the UK and Europe.

Geoff Dollard - Air Quality

Geoff Dollard has over 20 years of experience in directing scientific research projects and management of research programmes on the transport and behaviour of air pollutants and their deposition and impacts.

The programmes Geoff has directed and managed over the last 15 years have seen development of national pollution monitoring networks, national pollution emissions inventories, the national air quality archive and provision of close technical policy support to Defra in their development of the UK Air Quality Strategy. He is currently an assessor for the BCE Environmental Awards scheme.

John Stedman - Air Quality Science and Policy

John Stedman is knowledge leader for Air Quality Science and Policy and works largely within the Air and Water Quality area, leading a team responsible for data analysis and pollution climate mapping.

John has applied his data analysis and air quality science skills to a wide range of topics for Defra since 1988, including pollutant mapping, urban and rural air quality, acid deposition, and assessment of the health benefits resulting from the measures proposed to improve air quality.

John Watterson - Emissions Inventories

John has 11 years experience in emissions inventory work, and from 2002 to 2006 led the team that produces the UK’s Greenhouse Gas (GHG) inventory. John provides policy support to Defra on UK GHG emissions and projections and has contributed to the recent Climate Change Programme review. He has been involved in a number of international inventory projects including working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to develop the methodology to estimate GHG emissions and to develop GHG reporting software. John represents the UK on EU GHG inventory working groups.

John Huddleston - Energy Efficiency

John has 20 years experience working in the area of industrial energy efficiency. He was one of AEA’s Chief Technical Consultants prior to being appointed a Knowledge Leader, both roles recognising his broad spread of knowledge and experience as a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Physicist and Chartered Chemist. John’s major ongoing role for the last few years is the development and operation of the UK’s Climate Change Agreements (CCAs). He is the only person on the Government side who has been with CCAs since their inception in 1999. John is AEA’s Project Director for this work covering over 50 industrial sectors as the principal technical advisor to Defra. John is the project director for AEA’s contract providing technical advice to Defra for the Carbon Reduction Commitment.

Colin McNaught - Energy

Colin has 16 years experience in the energy field covering economic, technical and policy studies across a wide range of technologies and techniques. Colin was Project Manager for the Scottish Energy Study, a review of energy supply and demand in Scotland, creating the first consistent dataset on energy in Scotland for over 10 years. He was also Project Manager for a feasibility study on Carbon Trading as a more cost effective means to offset emissions from new homes.

Daniel Waller - Energy Policy

Daniel is an energy policy expert with over 10 years experience of helping business and government understand and react advantageously to European and domestic legislation. Daniel has delivered carbon management services to a number of Global businesses. Typical programmes of work have included carbon policy and strategy development. More recent work has involved helping businesses understand the carbon offsetting market and developing strategies for using this to reduce the environmental impact of their activities.

Heather Haydock - Climate Change Policy

Heather has 17 years experience in climate change policy support at AEA, where she has led projects for a wide range of public and private sector customers in the areas of future energy technologies, climate change policy appraisal, and programme evaluation. Heather has extensive experience in a range of policy areas including energy efficiency (households and business), renewable energy, carbon abatement technologies and sustainable transport, and her work has contributed to the UK’s National Energy Efficiency Action Plan.

Sujith Kollamthodi - Sustainable Transport

Sujith has 12 years experience of working on transport-related issues, with particular expertise on transport emissions, low carbon vehicle technologies and fuels, policy analysis and strategy formulation. He has an extensive track record in carrying out work for the UK Government and the European Commission on transport-related sustainability issues, with expertise in road transport, railways, shipping, and aviation. Sujith also leads AEA’s technical advice and research contract with the UK Department for Transport (DfT), through which the Department commissions strategic research on the full range of sustainable transport topics.

Adam Read - Waste and Resource Management

Adam has over 15 years of operational waste management experience and was recently awarded an honorary professorship for his pioneering work on waste communication and public engagement. He has worked with the UK Government on a range of local waste strategy and service delivery projects, including leading the consultancy team that developed the DEFRA funded New Technologies Training Programme. Adam has also provided industry training materials on treatment technologies and sustainable waste management for local authorities and private sector companies - and specialises in large-scale infrastructure procurement and consultation. Recognised as a leading waste management academic, with an extensive portfolio of research papers, conference articles and collaborative investigations, Adam has peer reviewed DEFRA funded waste management research proposals.