Stephen de Souza

This article is part of the Nuclear Spin project of Spinwatch.

Stephen de Souza is a former UK senior civil servant who has worked for energy giant Statoil since April 2013.

Background

Stephen de Souza's most recent government roles were as Head of Waste & Safety Policy in the Office for Nuclear Development and as Head Renewables Financial Incentives in the UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change.

At Statoil he works on 'Renewable Energy - Wind, Business Development'.

CV

• Head of Waste & Safety Policy, Office for Nuclear Development, DECC, June 2011 – March 2013 (1 year 10 months) London

Responsible for policy on nuclear waste, safety, plutonium disposition, implementation of Paris-Brussels conventions on liability, nuclear fuel cycle and R&D. Director of NNL Holdings.

• Head Renewables Financial Incentives, Department of Energy and Climate Change, December 2008 – May 2011 (2 years 6 months)

I was responsible for introducing the world’s most comprehensive system of renewable energy support: reforming the existing Renewables Obligation to properly support offshore wind and implementing 2 new incentives from scratch: the small-scale Feed-in tariff and the first of a kind Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI).

• Director Distributed Energy, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform , June 2006 – December 2008 (2 years 7 months)

• Director Demand and Distributed Energy, Department of Trade and Industry, October 2006 – June 2007 (9 months)
• Director, Department of Trade and Industry, Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; 2000 – 2007 (7 years)

Affiliations

• Was a member of the 2012 Ad Hoc Nuclear Research and Development Advisory Board