Michael Gibbons is currently the Chairman of the UK Member Committee of the World Energy Council (UKWEC). He is also a Director of the Carbon Capture and Storage Association, and Commercial Director of Powerfuel Power Ltd. He has worked towards better regulation for the UK government since 2002, including completing a review of Employment Dispute Resolution Regulations. In 2008, he was appointed by the European Commission to the High Level Advisory Group on Administrative Burdens, andin 2009 became the first Chair of the Regulatory Policy Committee in the UK. Prior to his governmental work, he held many directorial roles within Powergen, including negotiating major fuel purchase deals and managing Powergen's gas business. He has been Expert Advisor to the European Commission on energy pricing and Chair of the CBI electricity privatisation working party. He received an OBE for services to regulatory reform in 2008.

Catherine has been Secretary to UKWEC since January 2009 and is responsible for membership subscriptions, workshops administration and communications, circulating the twice-monthly UKWEC newsletter and maintaining the UKWEC’s online presence. Catherine is also the Library and Information Service Manager at the Energy Institute (EI), which she joined in 1989 when it was known as the Institute of Petroleum (IP). She had been a Member of the IP since 1982 and was made a Fellow in 1995. Catherine has been a committee member, since it was founded in 1984, of the Information for Energy Group (IFEG), a special interest group for individuals interested in any aspect of information management within the energy sector - including oil & gas, coal, renewables, future fuels, nuclear and energy management. Prior to joining the institute, Catherine was librarian at Marathon Oil UK for nine years, during the construction period for the Brae A and Brae B platforms, and was responsible, among other things, for ensuring that the construction sites held all relevant standards and their updates.