Julia Elizabeth King

Julia joined the Board as an Independent Non-executive Director in June 2021. Julia is an engineer with immense experience across industry and government and a focus on climate change adaptation and mitigation and the low carbon economy. Following an academic career at Cambridge University, Julia held senior engineering and business roles at Rolls-Royce between 1994 and 2002, before returning to academia as Principal of Engineering at Imperial College and then as Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Aston University from 2006-2016. She is currently Chair of The Carbon Trust, a non-executive director of Ørsted, Chair of the Adaptation Committee of the Climate Change Committee, and a member of the BEIS Hydrogen Advisory Council. Julia is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and was awarded a DBE for services to higher education and technology. In 2015 she was elevated to her Peerage as the Baroness Brown of Cambridge and sits as a Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords where she is a member of the Science and Technology Select Committee.