A board of Trustees guides and directs Renewable World and they are responsible for ensuring that the charity is well managed in line with it's vision and mission.
Our Trustees are experts drawn from the renewables energy, development and academic sectors.
Michael Bullock
Michael joined SeaRoc Group as the Commercial Director in 2008, having spent more than 20 years working in the international insurance markets in London and Bermuda, and involving the formation and development of a number of companies including more recently Ascot Renewco, an insurance underwriting operation dedicated to the renewable energy sector. Michael also has extensive experience and contacts in various emerging markets.
Michael has a Masters degree in Finance from London Business School.
Dr Patrick Spaven OBE
Patrick is a specialist in evaluation and organisational performance management. He founded the consultancy Spaven Research and Evaluation in 2005 and is a Visiting Fellow at Manchester Business School. Prior to that, he was the British Council’s Director of Research and Evaluation.
Patrick has lived and worked in Pakistan, Kenya, Catalonia and Sweden and conducted assignments in another 25 countries. He lives in Brighton and Hove, where he was born. Patrick has a doctorate from Warwick University and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
Dr Ray Thomas OBE
Ray Thomas studied History and International Relations in the UK, Trinidad and Switzerland and took his D.Phil from Sussex University. He joined the British Council in 1974 and worked in Morocco, Pakistan, Malaysia, Belgium and Turkey, as well as holding a number of senior management positions in London, including Regional Director, Middle East and North Africa from 1995 to 2000. He has extensive experience in the management of projects in developing countries.
Ray retired from the British Council in 2006.
Chris Tomlinson
Chris Tomlinson is the Director of Programme Strategy at BWEA where he has worked for over 5 years. Having qualified in Town & Country Planning in 1996 Chris went on to spend nearly 6 years working in local government in the field of planning, project management and urban regeneration.
He moved to BWEA in January 2002 as the Head of Planning before his role evolved to take on the full range of onshore issues which resulted in establishing a 4-strong Onshore Team dealing with planning & development issues at a national and regional level. Chris then led the creation of a new re-strengthened BWEA as the Director of Operations, devising a strategy and establishing a new staff and support group structure to enable delivery.
He is now the Director of Programme Strategy within the new organisation, heading up the critical policy developments across wind, wave and tidal technologies with the aim of securing a positive and robust regulatory framework to deliver a thriving industry.
Dr Jim Watson
Jim is Deputy Director of the Sussex Energy Group, SPRU, Sussex University and Joint Deputy Leader, Tyndall Centre Climate Change and Energy Programme. Jim has worked at SPRU since 1997, first as a Research Fellow and more recently as a Senior Fellow. He manages and conducts research energy and climate policy. His UK-based projects focus on the economic and policy aspects of distributed energy systems (particularly micro-generation), the economics of carbon capture and storage, and the potential impacts of a new programme of nuclear power. His international research includes participation in a UK-India project within the G8 Gleneagles Dialogue on barriers to low carbon technology transfer, and managing Tyndall Centre projects on international technology transfer and future energy and climate scenarios for China.
Jim is a Council Member of the British Institute for Energy Economics and a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee.
Louis FitzGerald
Louis FitzGerald is Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland (1971) His professional career has covered a broad spectrum of commercial activities in many
In 1997 Louis co-founded Airtricity a leading global renewable energy company embracing development; construction; wind farm operation and energy supply. His executive responsibilities covered Finance; Corporate & Strategic Development.
In 2007 Louis was instrumental in Airtricity becoming a friend of the Koru Foundation and has been an Ambassador for the charity since that time. Louis has recently been appointed to the Board of The Community Foundation in Ireland.
