John Armstrong is an engineer whose career has spanned the extremes of the energy industry – giving him a front-row seat on the energy roller-coaster. He began his career constructing oil refineries before moving to work across fossil and renewable electricity generation. More recently John has been leading the growth of decentralised energy.

John is a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, a Fellow of the Energy Institute, a Smeatonian (the oldest engineering society in the world!) and has an MBA in Global Energy from Warwick Business School. John regularly writes and speaks about the future of energy. He lives in Bath in the United Kingdom.