The Rt Hon Chris Skidmore OBE is a senior advisor and policy strategist with extensive experience in energy, climate, and innovation policy. As former UK Minister for Energy and Clean Growth, he signed the nation’s Net Zero commitment into law and later authored and led the Independent Net Zero Review, Mission Zero, defining the UK’s long-term pathway for sustainable growth and decarbonisation.
Today, Chris serves as Chair of the Transition Finance Council’s Pathways, Policies, and Governance Working Group, helping to shape the frameworks that will unlock private capital for large-scale transition investment across the UK economy. He also recently announced the One Million Homes initiative in collaboration with QGEMS Energy Ltd., a national programme to save the equivalent of one million homes’ worth of electricity through AI-enabled orchestration and efficiency systems.
As Advisor Director to QGEMS, Chris provides strategic counsel across policy, regulation, and transition finance, reinforcing the company’s leadership within the multi-trillion pound transition-finance economy and advancing its mission to build a secure, intelligent, and globally scalable Digital Energy Ecosystem.