Rodney has an MA in engineering science from St. Anne’s College, Oxford and an MSc in chemical engineering with design from the University of Manchester. He is a chartered engineer, a fellow of the IChemE and the IMechE with over 40 years’ experience in the process industries.

Rodney commenced his career at ICI Huddersfield in the fine chemicals area and later moved to ICI R&D at Runcorn to work on fluorochemical CFC replacements. After a spell as plant engineer on a vinyl chloride plant he moved to Albright & Wilson to oversee capital projects worldwide in the industrial phosphates and phosphorus derivatives divisions.

He set up PEDL in 2003 as an independent consultancy; latterly, he has worked as an expert witness across the oil, gas and chemical industries and as a consultant to the phosphoric acid industry and is now semi-retired.