Mark Howitt is an energy, innovation and business consultant. He is a United Nations (UNECE) expert advisor in energy transition technologies, economics, regulation and politics – http://business-lift.co.uk/renewable-energy/. He is also a member of the UK advisory team to the IEA (International Energy Agency), member of the Energy Storage Steering Group of the Renewable Energy Association, frequent consultee to the British energy ministry, regulator and National Grid, and expert speaker at many conferences. He was Chief Technical Officer and a founding director of Storelectric.
A graduate in Physics with Electronics, he has 12 years’ management and innovation consultancy experience world-wide. In a rail multinational, Mark transformed processes and developed 3 profitable and successful businesses: in commercialising a non-destructive technology he had innovated, in logistics (innovating services) and in equipment overhaul. In electronics manufacturing, he developed and introduced to the markets 5 product ranges and helped 2 businesses expand into new markets.