Rob Gross steps up as UKERC Director
06 Apr 2020
We are delighted to announce UKERC Director Rob Gross has recently been awarded a professorship by Imperial College London, becoming Professor of Energy Policy and Technology, as of 1st September.
Before joining UKERC Rob was previously the Director of the Centre for Energy Policy and Technology (ICEPT) at Imperial College London. He was also Policy Director of Imperial’s Energy Futures Lab. He retains a role at Imperial whilst spending 80% of his time on UKERC, based at UCL.
Rob has been involved with UKERC since its inception, leading the Technology and Policy Assessment theme and has published extensively on energy policy and technology. He has wide-ranging research management expertise and has made a substantive contribution to UK energy policy development, acting as advisor to Select Committees, preparing reports and chairing committees for Government departments and non-departmental public bodies, and as a consultant. He was seconded to the Cabinet Office in the early 2000s and contributed to the Blair Government Energy Review.