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Senior Scientific Officer

Policy Director

Rachael has been working in the bioenergy sector since 2014, joining Hawkins Wright in 2017 where she writes and edits Hawkins Wright’s monthly Forest Energy Monitor report and co-authors the quarterly Outlook for Wood Pellets service. She is also a regular contributor to other multi-client and consultancy projects, covering all regions. She presents frequently at industry gatherings.

Rachael holds a biological sciences degree from the University of Leicester.

Director
Fiona is a bioenergy consultant and market analyst with more than fifteen years' experience in the renewable energy industry. She joined Hawkins Wright in 2013 and is now responsible for overseeing the company's bioenergy activities. She is the co-author of Hawkins Wright’s market-leading Outlook for Wood Pellets service and Editor of Forest Energy Monitor. Fiona regularly undertakes consultancy projects for clients in Asia, Europe and North America on topics including wood pellet and biomass markets, sustainability, and energy policy.

She has a degree in Physics from the University of York and is an APMP qualified Project Manager.

Founder&CEO

Louis has been advising on carbon markets for more than 20 years.

He has been a true ‘first mover’ in the carbon markets, driving forward innovative and ground-breaking products.

Louis helped shape the industry, leading Barclays, environmental markets team for a decade.  He created, and more importantly, shared with the whole trading community, standardised trading documentation that allowed the secondary Certified Emissions Reduction (CER) market to start. He later repeated the initiative in the US by standardising terms that led to the first trades in California Carbon Allowances (CCAs). Both standards were subsequently adopted by exchanges active in carbon trading.

Louis has fought hard to protect the integrity of the carbon markets – most notably with his stance on VAT fraud and carbon credit theft in 2009/10. Here he personally assumed a leadership role in educating his financial peer companies and various authorities, including the European Commission, UK Treasury, the FCA and HMRC, on the problems and the potential solutions.

He has twice given evidence to the UK Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee as an expert in carbon trading.

Louis holds an MSc from Imperial College in Environmental Technology and Energy Policy.

Vice-President Development

Head of Manufacturing

Head of Innovation

In his role at Uniper Innovation, Harald’s job is to transform Uniper into a leading company for achieving a carbon neutral energy system. With his team, Harald is responsible for developing Uniper towards an SAF and green methanol producer. He has gained a vast experience in project development, technology and regulation regarding Renewable Liquid Fuels, CO2 Capturing or Hydrogen. He has initiated and developed the SkyfuelH2 project, being one of the first Power-Bio-to-SAF projects worldwide. Harald is part of an SAF expert group of the German government as well as the EU Renewable Low Carbon Fuels Alliance on SAF.

Prior Uniper, Harald was Managing Director of the German energy think-tank EWI, being one of the firsts to analyse in-depth the role of Renewable Liquid Fuels and CCUS for achieving climate neutrality in Germany (e.g. dena Leitstudie). Besides, Harald worked twice at the IEA, became reviewer of the World Energy Outlook, and was member of a 5 people expert panel consulting the British government.

Harald holds a PhD in Energy Economics, a diploma in Economics and a diploma in Geoinformation Sciences. 

Engineering & Technical Director at Alfanar

Manager Biomass-Coal Procurement