Putting the ‘how to’ into H2

The World Energy Council is bringing stakeholders together to come up with innovative new ways of building up demand for hydrogen

Angela Wilkinson became the secretary general of the World Energy Council (WEC) last November. She is a leading global energy futures expert, a former energy executive for Shell and British Gas, an Oxford scholar and a published author. Her multi-disciplinary career, including time with the OECD in Paris, made her the perfect fit to manage the international network of organisations, which brings together stakeholders from government, the private sector and civil society to determine the ‘how to’ part of creating or evolving better energy systems. Wilkinson is just the sixth secretary general since the WEC was formed 97 years ago. She spoke to Petroleum Economist at the end of the organisatio