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Jim Skea was a Professor of Sustainable Energy at Imperial College London from 2009 to 2023. His research interests are in energy, climate change and technological innovation.
He was the Chair of Scotland’s Just Transition Commission from 2018 to 2023, and was a founding member of the UK’s Committee on Climate Change, acting as its Scottish champion.
Between 2012 and 2017 Professor Skea was Research Councils UK’s Energy Strategy Fellow and was President of the Energy Institute between 2015 and 2017. He was Research Director of the UK Energy Research Centre from 2004-2012.
Born in Scotland, Jim Skea read Mathematical Physics at Edinburgh University, followed by a PhD in energy research at Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory. In 1981, he moved to Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to work on emerging US energy and environment policy. He then worked at the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University (1983-1998), where he moved through the ranks, becoming a Professorial Fellow in 1994. He was subsequently Director of the Policy Studies Institute (1998-2004).
He was awarded an OBE in 2004 and CBE in 2013 for his work on sustainable transport and sustainable energy respectively. In 2024, Jim Skea was awarded a knighthood in the King’s Birthday Honours list for services to global leadership in climate science.
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