Rolls-Royce

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

This page is about the aircraft engine and power systems company, the car company is Rolls-Royce Motor Cars.

Rolls-Royce Group plc is a British multinational power systems company headquartered in the City of Westminster, London. It is the world’s third-largest maker of aircraft engines, and also has major businesses in the marine propulsion and energy sectors including nuclear energy.

Through its defence-related activities, it is the world's 16th-largest defence contractor measured by 2011 defence revenues.

Affiliations

• Business Forum on Tax and Competitiveness
• Rolls-Royce was a donor to the Science Media Centre in 2012 and 2013 according to the SMC.

Nuclear

• AMEC
• Areva
• China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group
• Energy Industries Club
• Hitachi
• Nuclear Research and Development Advisory Board
• UK Ministry of Defence
• Rosatom, Russia's state atomic energy firm

People

• Professor Richard Parker: Director of Research and Technology, Rolls-Royce is a member of the UK government's ad hoc Nuclear Research and Development Advisory Board

Board

• Ian Davis, Chairman
• John Rishton, Chief Executive
• Dame Helen Alexander, Non-executive Director
• Lewis Booth CBE, Non-executive Director
• Sir Frank Chapman, Non-executive Director
• Iain Conn, Senior Independent Director
• Dr John McAdam, Non-executive Director
• John Neill CBE, Non-executive Director
• Jasmin Staiblin, Non-executive Director
• James Guyette, President & Chief Executive Officer Rolls-Royce North America Inc.
• Mark Morris, Chief Financial Officer
• Colin Smith CBE, Engineering & Technology Director
• Nigel Goldsworthy, Company Secretary & Head of Legal

Executive Leadership Team

• John Rishton, Chief Executive
• Jim Guyette, President & Chief Executive Officer Rolls-Royce North America Inc.
• Mark Morris, Chief Financial Officer
• Colin Smith CBE, Engineering & Technology Director
• Miles Cowdry, Corporate Development Director
• Kath Durrant, Human Resources Director
• Lawrie Haynes, President - Marine & Nuclear
• Andrew Heath, President - Energy
• Alain Michaelis, Operations Director
• John Paterson, President - Marine & Industrial Power Systems
• Robert Webb, General Counsel
• Tony Wood, President - Aerospace

Lobbyists

• Helen Kennett - Director of Government Relations
• Bell Pottinger -2011

Secondments

In February 2013, Spinwatch's NuclearSpin site revealed that Rolls-Royce had seconded an employee to the Department for Energy and Climate Change. As the head of ‘new nuclear capabilities and removing barriers’ at DECC, Sophie Macfarlane-Smith is responsible for 'enhancing the capability' of the UK's 'new nuclear supply chain and skills'. DECC says it meets her salary cost and makes sure there could be no conflict of interest.

EU lobbying

Rolls-Royce were among the top spending British based companies on EU lobbying in Brussels in 2014, spending between €1,500,000 and €1,750,000.

Nuclear collaboration

In September 2013 Rolls-Royce joined forces with Russian atomic energy operator Rosatom and Finnish utility Fortum to explore building and operating VVER nuclear power plants in the UK. Rosatom has worked closely with Rolls-Royce since the two companies signed a memorandum of understanding in 2011. The three companies will work together on preparation for a VVER reactor generic design assessment (GDA) and assessing opportunities for licensing of a nuclear power plant construction site in the UK.

To facilitate this work, on 5 September 2013 Rosatom and the UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change signed a Memorandum of cooperation in Moscow at a meeting between Rosatom’s Director General, Sergey Kirienko and UK Minister of State for Energy of the Department for Energy and Climate Change, Michael Fallon. At the same time, Rolls-Royce signed a contract with Rosatom which will see Rolls Royce carry out engineering and safety assessment work on Rosatom’s VVER technology ahead of its potential entry in the GDA process.

Contact

Address:65 Buckingham Gate,

London SW1E 6AT

Website: www.rolls-royce.com