Peter Taylor

Head of the Energy Technology Policy Division

International Energy Agency

Dr Peter Taylor is Head of the Energy Technology Policy Division at the International Energy Agency in Paris, where he leads the Division’s activities to analyse and promote the role of energy technologies in achieving the three goals of the IEA: energy security, economic development and environmental protection.

Prior to working at the IEA, Peter was Technical Director of Future Energy Solutions (a business of AEA Technology plc), a major UK energy and environmental consultancy. At FES he was part of the senior management team and had responsibility for maintaining and enhancing the technical expertise of the business.

Previously Peter spent 15 years working in both research and consultancy on a range of national and international energy and climate change policy issues.

He holds a BSc in Applied Physics from the University of Nottingham, and both an MSc in Environmental Technology and PhD in Energy Economics from Imperial College, London..