LowCVP announces new Chair of Board of Directors
Fri 28 March 2014
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Darran Messem has been appointed as the new Chair of the Board of Directors of the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP). He is International Director of the Carbon Trust and Managing Director of Carbon Trust Certification. He succeeds Professor Neville Jackson, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at Ricardo UK Ltd who has been Chair of the LowCVP since April 2009.
Darran Messem has served as a Board Director of the LowCVP since 2005. He has worked for the Carbon Trust since 2010, a position he took up after leaving Royal Dutch Shell, where he was Vice President, Fuel Development. Prior to that, he a variety of roles in Shell in the UK and internationally, including responsibilities for fuel sales to transport fleets and fuel development with motor manufacturers.
Darran joined Shell from Cambridge University with a First Class degree in Economic Geography and subsequently undertook a post-graduate diploma in marketing. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Apart from his professional life, Darran is a member of the Hounslow & District Wheelers and the Berkshire Triathlon Club.
Professor Neville Jackson, the outgoing Chair, took over from Graham Smith OBE, Senior Vice President, Toyota Motor Europe, who was Chair of the LowCVP from its inception in 2003 until 2009.
Darran Messem said: "Road transport accounts for around 20% of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions and is one of the most diverse sectors in the UK economy.
"As a membership organisation supported by the Department for Transport, the LowCVP is a key enabler of the policy, technology and behavioural changes needed to deliver emissions reductions.
"The Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership has a superb record in delivering cost-effective solutions and I am delighted to have been elected as its Chair to help continue the drive for efficient and lower carbon road transport."
The LowCVP Managing Director Andy Eastlake said: “I welcome Darran to his new role and would also like to pay tribute to Neville Jackson, the outgoing LowCVP Chair, who has so capably steered the Partnership through what has been a turbulent period of political change and economic recession. The Partnership has delivered many notable successes during his tenure for which we owe a debt of thanks.”
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