Willy Rickett
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Willy Ricket is a former top civil servant who held the positions of Director General, Energy, Department of Energy & Climate Change and Chairman of the Governing Board of the International Energy Agency until his retirement in September 2009.
He was also co-chair of the Energy Research Partnership and Head of the Energy Group at BERR in 2008.
Rickett has been described as 'one of the chief architects of electricity privatisation in the late 80s'.[1]
He is now a senior non-executive director of Helius Energy, a biomass energy development company; and a non-executive director of Eggborough Power Ltd, the National Renewable Energy Centre Ltd, Impax Environmental Markets plc and Cambridge Economic Policy Associates Ltd. He is an adviser to Which? on energy issues and a member of the Advisory Board of the Electricity Policy Research Group at Cambridge University. [2]
Biography
Circa 2006: Willy Rickett is a career civil servant. From March 6, 2006, this former Principal at the Government's Atomic Energy Division became Director General for the Department for Trade and Industry's Energy Group, replacing Joan MacNaughton. [3]
The Energy Group 'deals with a wide range of energy related matters, from its production or generation to its eventual supply to the customer'. It is the key group involved with the Energy Review from the DTI[4]
Rickett joined the civil service in 1975 and has held the following positions:[5]
- Principal, Atomic Energy Division, 1978
- Private Secretary to Prime Minister (Margaret Thatcher), 1981
- Seconded to Kleinwort Benson Ltd, 1983
- Assistant Secretary, Oil Division, Department of Energy, 1985
- Assistant Secretary, Electricity Privatisation, 1987 (age 32 was put in charge of electricity privatisation in 1987 and worked on this until the privatisation was complete in 1990)[6]
- Grade 4, Electricity Privatisation, Department of Energy, 1989
- Under Secretary, Energy Efficiency Office, 1990
- Finance Director, Department of Environment, 1993
- Director, Land Use Planning, DoE, 1997
- Head of the Economic & Domestic Secretariat, Cabinet Office, 1998 - working closely with No10 on issues like welfare reform, energy policy, public spending etc [7]
- Director General, DETR and then DfT, 2000
- Ernst & Young, 2004.
References
- ↑ Paul Foot, "The notional health service", The Guardian, January 25, 2000.
- ↑ Helius Energy, Directors, Helius Energy website, acc 29 October 2013
- ↑ Government News Network press release: "New Director General for Energy at the DTI", February 20, 2006.
- ↑ DTI Website: "About the energy group", undated, accessed February 2006.
- ↑ Government News Network press release: "New Director General for Energy at the DTI", February 20, 2006.
- ↑ Department Of The Environment, Transport And The Regions press release: "Head Of Transport Task Force Appointed", unavailable online, January 17, 2000.
- ↑ Department Of The Environment, Transport And The Regions press release: "Head Of Transport Task Force Appointed", unavailable online, January 17, 2000.
