Juliet Davenport

Juliet Davenport OBE (born 1968[1]) is a British businesswoman. She founded and is the chief executive of Good Energy, a leading renewable energy company in the United Kingdom.

Origins and education

Davenport was born in Haslemere, Surrey, in 1968.[2][3]

She read physics as an undergraduate at Merton College, Oxford before taking a master's degree in economics and environmental economics at Birkbeck, University of London. She also worked for a year at the European Commission on European energy policy and at the European Parliament on carbon taxation.[4]

Career

Davenport began working with Energy for Sustainable Development, an environmental consultancy. While there, she ran technology models and analysed policies on renewable energy from countries around Europe.[5]

In 1999 Davenport set up Unit[e], a subsidiary of the Monkton Group, of which she later became CEO. In 2003, Unit[e] was renamed Good Energy. The company has won several awards, including being twice named a Sunday Times Best Green Company, Wiltshire Wildlife Trust’s Outstanding Contribution to the Environment 2009 and The Observer’s Ethical Award for best online retail initiative.[6] In 2012, Davenport was named as PLUS CEO of the year.[7]

Davenport was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours List 2013.[8]

Personal life

Davenport lives in the Cotswolds.[9] She is married and has both a daughter and a stepdaughter.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  2. 1 2 Tim Webb, The Good Life still means Sustainability, The Times, 10 December 2012.
  3. ↑ Emma Sinclair, How Juliet Davenport went from science to chief executive, Daily Telegraph, 14 January 2013
  4. ↑ Mark Tran, Ethical powerhouse, The Guardian, 25 June 2004.
  5. ↑ Good Energy website, Juliet Davenport, accessed on 11 February 2013.
  6. ↑ Good Energy web-site, Our history, accessed on 11 February 2013.
  7. ↑ Growthbusiness.co.uk web-site, 2 March 2012 (accessed on 11 February 2013).
  8. ↑ Cabinet Office press release, New Year Honours 2013, accessed on 11 February 2013.
  9. ↑ Fiona Scott, People of Power, The Wiltshire Magazine, 22 November 2012.
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