Professor Nigel Brandon OBE FREng is Dean of Engineering, and holds the Chair in Sustainable Development in Energy, at Imperial College London.  He is Director of the UK Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Hub (www.h2fcsupergen.com), and Co-Director of the Energy Storage Hub (energysuperstore.org). He is a founder of Ceres Power (www.cerespower.com), a fuel cell company spun out from Imperial College in 2000, and RFC Power (http://rfcpower.com/), a flow battery company spun out from Imperial College in 2018. He is Chair of the Sustainable Gas Institute at Imperial College (www.sustainablegasinstitute.org), and Editor-in-Chief of Progress in Energy (https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2516-1083).