1. John Neil Loughhead was born on 24 September 1948 and is a British engineer and businessman.
15 Facts About John Loughhead
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John Loughhead is Industrial Professor of Clean Energy at University of Birmingham, Chair of the Redwheel-Turquoise ClimateTech Investment Committee, and Council member at the University of York.
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John Loughhead is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, and of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
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John Loughhead was appointed OBE for services to Technology in 2011 and CB in 2018.
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John Loughhead graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London, where he spent five years in computational fluid dynamics research.
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John Loughhead is Honorary Professor of Cardiff University, Honorary Fellow of Queen Mary University of London, Fellow of the UK, Australia, and China national Academies of Engineering, and a Freeman of the City of London.
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John Loughhead was Corporate Vice-President of Technology and Intellectual Property at Alstom.
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John Loughhead joined the UK Energy Research Centre in 2004 as executive director.
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John Loughhead was Co-Chair of the Implementation Panel of the European Commission Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Platform, which produced the future plan for European fuel cell commercialisation, and Co-Chair of the Implementation Committee of the International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy.
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John Loughhead was previously a member of EPSRC Council and Past-President of the UK's Institution of Engineering and Technology.
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In 2013, John Loughhead was appointed as the UK's Focal Point contact for China in the area of energy and renewables until January 2015.
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In October 2014, John Loughhead was appointed Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change, which was merged with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in 2016 to become the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, where his responsibility was to ensure that the Department's policies and operations, and its contributions to wider Government issues, were underpinned by the best science and engineering advice available.
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John Loughhead is presently Industrial Professor of Clean Energy at the University of Birmingham, Chair of the Redwheel-Turquoise ClimateTech Investment Committee, a member of University of York Council, and non-executive Director of Carbon Management Canada Ltd in addition to serving on a number of public and private sector advisory boards.
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John Loughhead was appointed an OBE for services to Technology in Queen's Birthday Honours List in June 2011.
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John Loughhead was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath for services to Research and Development in the Energy Sector in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in June 2018.