Professor Dame Julia King FRS FREng FMedSci, Baroness Brown of Cambridge, has joined Holtec Britain as its Senior Adviser in the UK.
Baroness Brown of Cambridge has deep experience and an impeccable pedigree across academia, government, engineering, climate change, energy and advisory roles that will support Holtec Britain as it progresses through the SMR-300 Generic Design Assessment process and the Great British Nuclear competition.
With a career spanning senior engineering and leadership roles in industry and academia, Julia started her career as an academic at Cambridge before joining Rolls-Royce plc. Afterwards she moved back into academia, becoming the Principal of the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial College London and subsequently Vice-Chancellor of Aston University.
Julia currently chairs the Carbon Trust, the Climate Change Committee’s Adaption Committee and was previously the Vice-Chair of the Climate Change Committee; non-executive Director of the Green Investment Bank; and led the King Review on decarbonising transport (2008).
She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and of the Royal Society, an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and was made a DBE for services to higher education and technology. She is a crossbench Peer and currently chairs the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee.
We are delighted to have Julia on the team!