Achieving Jet Zero, A Cross-Sector Perspective
Author WIG Date 13 Oct 2022
We were delighted to welcome Dr Rannia Leontaridi OBE FRSA, Director General of Aviation, Maritime and Security Group, Department for Transport; Maithili Ganesh, Head of Environmental Technology, Rolls-Royce; and David Debeny, Head of Whole Aircraft, Aerospace Technology Institute to discuss challenges and opportunities around achieving ‘Jet Zero’.
The UK government’s ambitions for clean aviation were set out in the ten-point plan for a green industrial revolution in November 2020, with the subsequent Jet Zero Strategy published July 2022 outlining interventions which aim to establish the UK as a world leader in zero-emission flight.
Catch up on the Briefing recording and post-event recap to:
- Learn about the Jet Zero 'Investment Flight Path' strategy
- Understand plans to achieve 10% sustainable aviation fuel in the UK by 2030
- Explore how organisations across the sectors can work together to drive net zero in UK airport operations by 2040, and net zero emissions across aviation by 2050
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Speakers at the Event
Rannia joined the Department for Transport to be the new Director for Aviation and the Director General Civil Aviation for the UK. After two years in that role, she has now moved on to be the Director General for Aviation, Maritime and Security. Over the previous three years Rannia was the Director for Business Growth, leading Government’s policy on entrepreneurs, small businesses, but also new and emerging high growth and technology businesses. She devised and implemented the UK’s first AI strategy and secured a £1bn AI sector deal in a partnership between the private sector, government and academia. She created and became the first Director for the Office for Artificial Intelligence for Her Majesty’s Government and led the Industrial Strategy Grand Challenge on Artificial Intelligence. Prior to BEIS she led teams in the Cabinet Office, No10 Strategy Unit, and Defra in policy, strategy and commercial roles, including leading the development of more than 100 employee-owned private sector businesses, and was the Co-Founder and Director HMG Shareholder at Crown Hosting Data Centres, a joint venture between UK Government and Ark Data Centres. Rannia started life as an entrepreneur and later became an Assistant Professor in Economics. She received an OBE for public service in 2016 and is a Carnegie Scholar in Economics and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts. Rannia is married with one daughter, loves to travel, and is a runner, and a “maker” in her spare time.
David joined the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) in 2019 and leads the Whole Aircraft Modelling team. Their objective is to analyse current and future aircraft to understand the ultimate benefit of technology being developed. He was a co-architect of the ATI FlyZero project, and subsequently a Chief Engineer during the delivery phase. FlyZero was a ground-breaking study bringing together over 100 experts to examine the possibility of zero-carbon emission flight. The project produced 25 public reports covering topics including aircraft concepts, sustainability analysis and infrastructure requirements. Prior to joining the ATI, David was Chief of Future Aircraft Concepts at Rolls-Royce plc. In this role he led projects examining technologies such as hybrid-electric aircraft, eVTOLs and boundary layer ingestion propulsion. His previous engineering experience included leading the development programme for the Trent XWB engine which is fitted to the Airbus A350 aircraft. He has 2 children, and in his consequently small amount of spare time likes to play sport and music.