Prof John Neil Loughhead CB

OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

FREng FIMechE FIET (born 24 September 1948) is a British businessman and Chief Scientific Adviser to

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(BEIS). He is also a Fellow of the

Royal Academy of Engineering The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is the United Kingdom's national academy of engineering. The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first senior ...

, Chair of the Energy research partnership and was formerly the Executive Director of the

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. He was appointed an OBE for services to Technology in 2011.Birthday Honours List 2011
In 2014, he was voted as one of the Top 500 Most Influential People in Britain by Debrett's and The Sunday Times.John Loughhead Profile on Debrett's Website

Education

He attended Bemrose Grammar School in Derby, a boys'

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. John Loughhead graduated in Mechanical Engineering from

Imperial College London Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...

, where he also spent five years in computational fluid dynamics research. He is Honorary Professor of Cardiff University, Honorary Fellow of Queen Mary University of London, Fellow of both the UK and Australian national Academies of Engineering, and a Freeman of the City of London.John Loughhead Profile on UKERC Website

Career

John Loughhead was Corporate Vice-President of Technology and Intellectual Property at

Alstom Alstom SA is a French multinational rolling stock manufacturer operating worldwide in rail transport markets, active in the fields of passenger transportation, signalling, and locomotives, with products including the AGV, TGV, Eurostar, Avelia ...

. He joined the

in 2004 as executive director. He is currently the UK member of the European Energy Research Alliance, a member of the European Advisory Group on Energy, and Advisor to the

European Commission The European Commission (EC) is the executive of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with 27 members of the Commission (informally known as "Commissioners") headed by a President. It includes an administrative body o ...

Directorate-General Research, Assessor for the Technology Strategy Board, Non-Executive Director of the

Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) The Ministry of Defence (MOD or MoD) is the department responsible for implementing the defence policy set by His Majesty's Government, and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces. The MOD states that its principal objectives are to ...

Research & Development Board, and a member of the UK's Energy Research Partnership. He was also Co-Chair of the Implementation Panel of the

Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Platform, which produced the future plan for European fuel cell commercialisation, and is currently Co-Chair of the Implementation Committee of the International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy. He was previously a member of EPSRC Council and Past-President of the UK's Institution of Engineering and Technology. In 2013, John Loughhead was appointed as the UK's Focal Point contact for China in the area of energy and renewables until January 2015.Press Release for John Loughhead's appointed as UK-China Focal Point for Energy and Renewables
Later in 2013 he was appointed chair of an independent science board overseeing a trans-European fracking research project.Press Release for John Loughhead's appointed as Chair of Refine Independent Scientific Advisory Board
In October 2014, John Loughhead was appointed Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), which was merged with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in 2016 to become the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), where he now works to ensure that the Department's policies and operations, and its contributions to wider Government issues, are underpinned by the best science and engineering advice available.DECC appoints new chief scientific advisor
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Awards

John is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow and Past-President (2008) of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the City & Guilds of London Institute, and the Royal Society of Arts. He was appointed an

for services to Technology in

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List in June 2011. In January 2014, he was voted as one of the Top 500 Most Influential People in Britain by Debrett's and The Sunday Times. He was made a

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for services to Research and Development in the Energy Sector in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in June 2018.Birthday Honours List 2018
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References

External links

The UK Energy Research Centre's websiteThe Durham University Refine Project website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Loughhead, John Living people 1948 births Alstom Alumni of Imperial College London English mechanical engineers Fellows of the Institution of Engineering and Technology Fellows of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering General Electric Company People educated at Bemrose School People from Derby Companions of the Order of the Bath Officers of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Engineers from Yorkshire

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