Richard Sulley

Richard Sulley is the Senior Research Fellow in Sustainability Policy at the Grantham Centre.

His role involves identifying and creating mechanisms to deliver real world impact from the Centre’s research through engagement with policy and decision makers. Richard is an energy and carbon specialist with a background in mechanical engineering, and extensive experience in the private and public sectors delivering energy and carbon reduction projects and roadmaps for organisations of all types and scales.

Richard was previously the Net Zero Project Director for the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority and led the SYMCA’s sustainability team working on the development and delivery of programmes to reduce emissions and deliver co-benefits for the region across Transport, Housing, Industry and Commercial Sectors, and the Natural Environment.

Richard’s core skills comprise leading change programmes and the identification and implementation of large-scale energy, water and carbon reduction projects. He has provided energy efficiency, cost and carbon reduction consultancy services to a variety of blue-chip clients across Europe.