Skea to be president of Energy Institute

Jim Skea, professor of sustainable energy at the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College, is president-elect of the Energy Institute, London. He will be nominated for appointment to the position at the group’s annual general meeting in June 2015.

Skea is a founding member of the UK’s Committee on Climate Change and is vice-chair of Working Group III (Mitigation) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

He will succeed Ian Marchant, former chief executive of SSE (formerly Scottish & Southern Energy).