In addition to his past roles as policy and innovation director at ScottishPower Renewables and chairman of the Offshore Wind Cost Reduction Task Force (which last summer published a seminal report on the sector’s key challenges) Jamieson is chairman of the trade body RenewableUK.

Yet his newest job – chief executive of the UK’s Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, for which he left ScottishPower after 25 years – is perhaps his most challenging and important yet.

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