Biography
David is BP/Royal Academy of Engineering Chair at Imperial College in Engineering for Sustainable Development and co-director of the BP Urban Energy Systems project. He convenes the BP Advanced Energy in Buildings Programme on the Imperial campus, which looks at the technologies that will determine building energy consumption thirty years from now
Research interest include system approach to understanding the onset of unsustainable development and how this might be best included in risk assessments particularly for large complex systems such as cities.
Chief Scientist and Policy Director in DOE, DETR and DTLR and until 2005 Chief Scientific Adviser to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and council Member of the NERC from 1988 to 2001, David has published in the fields of engineering, environment modeling and analysis, energy and resource economics, knowledge management and risk and has served on the Commission for Environmental Markets and Economic Performance. David is a member of the Gas & Electricity Markets Authority since 2009.
