offshore industry. He is a past-Chairman of the British Wind Energy Association, now Renewable UK. He was President of European Wind Energy Association (EWEA, now Wind Europe) from 2013 to 2014. He chaired Bristol's year as European Green Capital in 2015. He sold Garrad Hassan to Germanischer Lloyd in 2009 and became President of the combined company, GL Garrad Hassan, and hence was responsible for both consultancy and certification. When he retired in 2015 the renewable energy company had 1,000 staff in 29 countries. In retirement he remains active in wind energy and, in 2019, he was appointed Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor in Renewable Energy by the University of Bristol. His job is to introduce students to the engineering world outside university. Awards and prizes He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering by the University of Bristol in 2009 and by the University of Exeter in 2018. He was a member of the Council (Governing Body) of the University of Bristol from 2012 to 2016 and is on the advisory board of the Cabot Institute. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Royal Academy of Engineering and an Honorary Fellow of New College, Oxford. He received a CBE for services to renewable energy in the 2017 new year's honours list. He has regularly been voted amongst “the most influential people in the wind energy business.” On his retirement the industry magazine, Wind Power Monthly, referred to him as “the godfather of wind energy technology.” OGM named him one of the world's seven most influential energy leaders along with Elon Musk and Bill Gates; Daily Magazine made a similar reference. In 2006, he received the EWEA's Poul la Cour prize and in 2015 the Aeolus prize from the Hellenic Wind Energy Association the only “non-Greek” ever to do so. Private life He lives in Bristol, England and is married with four children. References 1953 births Living people Wind power Renewable energy Alumni of the University of Oxford 20th-century British engineers 21st-century British engineers Alumni of the University of Exeter