Jon Christopher Knudsen is Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) in Aker Carbon Capture. With nearly 20 years in the oil and energy sector, Knudsen has held several leadership positions in digitalization, customer experience, strategy and HR in the Aker Solutions group. Knudsen joined Aker Solutions after many years in the international consulting company Accenture, where he focused on technology solutions for business insights in oil and energy companies. He is a business economist graduating from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) in Norway and the College of William & Mary, Virginia (US).

Currently responsible for a range of strategy and commercial development activities for SUEZ UK, delivering solutions to meet the business and customer needs, including leading the Expert Practitioner consultancy service.  Stuart undertakes commercial deals, policy and strategy work with experience in waste as a resource, energy and bio-fuel manufacture, sorting, extraction and value enhancement for waste mix resources, customer solutions, research and development, innovation and industrialisation.

He is directly involved in works covering carbon, biodiversity and natural capital, and having over 30 years’ experience in the industry has amassed wide technical and commercial skills and experience in the systems of waste and resource management, markets, strategy, technologies and the environment.

Stuart is a member of the following organisations:

-       Waste management representative for the DEFRA advisory committee on packaging

-       Director of Recoup, a charity involved in plastic recycling

-       Chair of the ESA Biotreatment committee

-       Chair of the ESA CCUS group

-       Chair of the North East England Climate Coalition (NEECCo)

-       UK representative of the SUEZ International R&D and Innovation groups

-       The Renewable Energy Association Renewable transport fuels group

-       The Renewable Energy Association Bio-energy group

-       Technical expert for SUEZ recycling and recovery UK across numerous fields

-       The advisory committee for the ONS national materials datahub project.

-       Director of Terracycle UK

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Originally trained as a Chemist and in Chemical Engineering, Paul has spent over 30 years working internationally in the Energy and Environment fields for both the Public and Private Sector.

His experience covers a wide range of themes including industrial emissions and industrial impact reduction, renewable energy technologies, projects & policy development and delivery, and he has specific expertise in waste-to-energy and biomass energy projects.

As the author of the first EU “Best Available Techniques” Reference (BREF) document on thermal waste treatments (2006) he is well known internationally for his expertise in this area. Over the last 15 years he has worked on numerous projects for the development and implementation of waste and energy infrastructure, as an adviser to national and international governments & agencies, and developed leading international consulting businesses in these areas.

He is the Chairman of the UK Chartered Institute of Wastes Management (CIWM) Special Interest Group on Thermal Waste Treatment and the author / co-author of papers on issues including low carbon energy and resources/waste management, a supervisor of university projects, and author of technical policy documents regarding national and international emission regulation.