Juliet Davenport OBE HonFEI has been appointed as the President of the Energy Institute (EI) for the next three years. She succeeds former National Grid CEO Steve Holliday FREng FEI.

Davenport is the founder of Good Energy and has been an innovator for over 20 years, working on ideas to fight climate change and transform the energy sector for the better.

In 2013, she was awarded an OBE for services to renewables. She currently sits on the board of the Renewable Energy Association, Innovate UK, the Crown Estate and is Vice President of the Energy Institute. In addition, she sits on the advisory boards of leading UK think tanks, including Energy Systems Catapult, Aurora, Oxford Energy, and LSE’s Grantham Institute.

Davenport has various scholastic credentials with academic organisations, including University of Wales, Imperial College, Bristol University, Birkbeck and LSE, where she has various roles and accolades, with the ambition of influencing the next generation to think about the energy transition and our low carbon future.