Clean Energy
Committee

Greg Kelsall
Chairman
Greg Kelsall has over 30-years experience in the energy related industry and for the last 5 years has been a Fellow of the IChemE.

Abby Samson
Committee Member
Abby Samson is a Lecturer in Fuels and Combustion in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sheffield.

Mark Hodgson
Committee Member

Andy Brown
Committee Member
Andy worked for the CEGB on power stations for 20 years covering coal, gas turbine and nuclear.

Ben Anthony
Committee Member
Dr Edward “Ben” Anthony is an adjunct professor in the Chemical and Biological Engineering department at the University of Ottawa.

David Lemon
Committee Member
David graduated with a Bachelor of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering from Brunel University. His career took him to Lucas Industries as Development Group Leader, Ricardo Consulting Engineers as Chief Engineer-Light Duty Diesel and the Energy Saving Trust as Head of Technical Services.

Geraint Evans
Committee Member
Geraint is a Chemical Engineer specialising in renewable energy, in particular, biomass, bioenergy, biofuels and CCS.

Michael Green
Immediate Past Chair
Dr Green maintains an interest and network with those still working in Underground Coal Gasification.

Michael Menzies
Committee member
Born in Everton, and also educated in London, Mike gained a BSc in Chemical Engineering at Surrey University. He started in Surrey, then Wolverhampton, with in a furnace engineering company working in the steel and glass industries.

Paul Fennell
Committee Member
Paul Fennell is Professor of Clean Energy at Imperial College London. He obtained his degree in Chemical Engineering and PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Dan Faulkner
Committee member
Dan is a graduate chemical engineer from Newcastle University, working within Group Environment at Tata Steel Europe.

Thomas Isaac
Committee member
Tommy is a chartered chemical engineer with experience spanning the energy industry, including both operational and consulting.

Karen N Finney
Committee Member
Dr Finney is a chartered engineer and currently a senior research fellow within the Energy2050 group at the University of Sheffield.

Katie Chong
Committee Member
Dr Katie Chong is a lecturer in chemical engineering with significant industrial experience within the paper industry and as a bioenergy consultant.

Ray Sacks
Committee Member
Ray is a Fellow of the institution, Chartered Engineer and a Member of the Institute of Acoustics. He worked in the cryogenic industry for a long time moving to general consultancy and now is at Imperial College researching energy storage.

Ruby Ray
Committee Member
Dr Ruby Ray is a Principal Process Engineer within Wood’s Process Technology and Consultancy, SEC group with a PhD in Chemical Engineering.

Salvador Eslava
Meeting Secretary

Michael Douglas Keast
Assistant Secretary
Graduating with an honours degree in Chemical Engineering from Birmingham University in 1980, Mike worked at ICI & Foster Wheeler Energy Limited (FWEL)- the latter 8 years of which he was Chief Process Engineer of FWEL UK Operations Teesside office. Mike now works as an independent consultant, scaling up sustainable solutions.

Carolina Font Palma
Treasurer
Dr Font Palma is Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hull, where she works on process simulation, process integration of energy systems and cryogenic carbon capture.

Yulong Ding
Committee Member
Professor Yulong Ding FREng FIChemE FRSC is the founding Director of University of Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage.

Sajalu Greenall
Committee Member
Sajalu is the Lead Analyst for the Humber Industrial Cluster Plan (HICP), which is formed by public-private partnership with a vision to create a net-zero industrial cluster by 2040.

Mkushi (George) Hurudza
Committee member

Ameer Jasat
Committee member
Ameer is a Chartered Engineer and currently Managing Consultant in the energy industry, delivering infrastructure projects to accelerate the transition to a Hydrogen Economy in the UK.

Rachel Perry
Committee member

Nor Aishah Saidina Amin
Committee member
Professor Ir. Dr. Nor Aishah Saidina Amin is a Professor of Reaction Engineering, Head of the Chemical Reaction Engineering Group (CREG), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.