Directory of Experts

Ian is the General Manager – Global Research and Analysis at the Global CCS Institute and is based in Melbourne. Ian leads the Institute’s work on all legal and regulatory matters, including the delivery of technical reports and analysis focusing on carbon capture and storage within future energy technologies and climate change scenarios.

International expert in greenhouse gas emissions reduction, clean energy, and sustainability, with over two decades of experience working across global institutions and multicultural environments. Specializes in the deployment and acceleration of low-carbon solutions for the energy and industrial sectors, with a particular focus on carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS).

Tim is responsible for managing IEAGHG and he keeps us on course, delivering cutting-edge carbon capture and storage research. Tim also contributes to international regulatory and policy bodies, such as the UNFCCC, IPCC, and CSLF.

Tamara is the Director of External Relations and Communications at CMC. She is a communications and marketing professional with extensive experience in brand and strategic communications management, public, stakeholder and rightsholder engagement, and content creation. Tamara specializes in communicating about Canada’s energy industry, including emerging clean energy sectors. She applies a consistent communications approach driven by research-based and insightful audience analysis to align with business goals. Tamara is a co-host of Not Your Grandpa’s Energy Industry podcast and supports the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) in a variety of volunteer roles. She has won awards for brand representation and website development in online publishing.

Neil Wildgust is the President and CEO of Carbon Management Canada (CMC), responsible for leading the organization in supporting industry, governments and other organizations attempting to reduce emissions and meet their net-zero goals. Neil has championed geologic carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies for more than two decades, bringing over 35 years of geoscience expertise to our team. Prior to joining CMC, Neil served as Director for Cordilleran Research at the British Columbia Geological Survey, before consulting independently on CCS and risk assessment. He has held past roles within the IEA Greenhouse Gas (IEAGHG) R&D Programme, the Petroleum Technology Research Centre leading the IEAGHG Weyburn-Midale Program, the Global CCS Institute in Calgary, and the Energy & Environmental Research Center in North Dakota. Neil also served as an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control between 2016 and 2021 and was a recipient of a Plains CO2 Reduction Partnership (PCOR) Partnership Pioneer Award in 2015.

Dr. Marie Macquet is Director of Operations and Research at CMC. Marie leads the CMC Containment and Monitoring Innovation (CaMI) program and focuses on the geophysical monitoring of the subsurface applied to CO₂ sequestration. Marie completed her M.Sc. in Planetology in 2011 at the University of Nantes (France) and graduated with her PhD in Geophysics in 2014 from ISTerre laboratory, University Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France). At the time, Marie was working on the crustal tomography of mountain ranges. By 2016, Marie changed her focus toward geologic CO₂ monitoring and storage, starting at CREWES (University of Calgary) and CMC.

The Multiphase Systems Laboratory specialises in the design of chemical processes that incorporate porous solids, with application related to the energy and the chemical industry, and its transition to adopting more sustainable solutions. A major focus of this research is reducing CO2 emissions from industrial processes by incorporating technologies, such as Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). Our overarching goal is to optimise performance, while embedding sustainability in both the materials and processes associated with these new technologies.

Geoff Maitland is Professor of Energy Engineering at Imperial College London and a Past President of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (2014-15). His career has spanned academia and industry, spending 20 years in oil and gas with Schlumberger and over 20 years at Imperial, first as a young lecturer from 1974 and then from 2005 in his current post. He studied Chemistry at Oxford University where he also obtained his doctorate in Physical Chemistry. After a period as an ICI Research Fellow at Bristol University, he was appointed to a lectureship in Chemical Engineering at Imperial College in 1974. His research focused on molecular interactions and the transport properties of fluids, including polymer systems. He spent a secondment with ICI Plastics Division from 1979-81 and became a senior lecturer in 1983. In 1986 he moved to the oil and gas industry with Schlumberger, where he carried out research in oilfield fluids engineering, including the use of colloidal systems for well construction, reservoir stimulation and production enhancement. He held a number of senior technical and research management positions in Cambridge and Paris, most recently as a Research Director. He rejoined Imperial College in September 2005 as Professor of Energy Engineering and his current research is now centred on how we can continue to use fossil fuels for most of this century without causing catastrophic climate change, particularly through carbon capture and storage (CCUS). He has chaired several CCUS public reports and been a member of the 2018 UK Government CCUS Cost Challenge Taskforce.

Niall is a Professor of Future Energy Systems at Imperial College London. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of both the IChemE and the Royal Society of Chemistry. His research is focused on understanding the transition to a low carbon economy and has published more than 250 peer-reviewed scientific papers, technical reports, and books in this context. Niall has more than a decade’s experience as a consultant to the public and private sectors. He has worked with a range of private sector organisations spanning the energy industry and financial sector, and recently completed a two-year secondment to the UK Government Department BEIS (now DESNZ) where he acted as an expert policy advisor on CCUS and CDR, contributing to the development of the UK’s Net Zero Strategy and the business models that underpin current investments in CCUS and CDR.

Industrial Decarbonisation and Efficiency Improvement. Advanced Processes for low-carbon production of Iron and Steel.
Clean Production of energy, including integration of energy production into industrial processes. Policy in the area of Carbon Capture and Storage, industry and energy production. Low carbon cement production and use. Trace element mitigation from energy production. Production of hydrogen and integration of the production and use of hydrogen into industrial processes. Cross-industry integration, industrial hubs Consultancy in the areas above, including for government and industry.