PADDY TIPPING MP
Chairman of PGES

  • Labour Member for Sherwood since 1987
  • His constituency combines rural areas and colliery villages, and contains the shut Thoresby colliery
  • Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Home Secretary (Rt Hon Jack Straw) 1997-98; Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary (Rt Hon Jack Straw) 2005-2007
  • Parliamentary Secretary at the Privy Council Office and Deputy Leader of the House of Commons 1998-June 2001; Deputy Leader of the House of Commons 2007
  • Member of the Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Standards & Privileges Committee
  • Vice President of the National Ramblers Association
  • Enthusiastic member – and former Officer – of the Group since joining its offshore visit to Chevron’s Ninian Central field in 1992
  • Returned to the chair of the Group in July 2002

Deputy Chairmen:

Robert Key MP
Dr Ashok Kumar CEng FIChemE MP
Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan
Lord Skelmersdale
Steve Webb MP
Rt Hon Lord Whitty

Hon Treasurers:

Rt Hon Lord Fraser of Carmyllie QC
Ian Stewart MP

Hon Secretaries:

Michael Clapham MP
Ian Liddell-Grainger MP

European Officer:

Giles Chichester MEP

Membership Officer:

Robert Lane CBE

Council Members:

Tim Boswell MP
Christopher Chope OBE MP
Linda Gilroy MP
David Green OBE
John Grogan MP
Charles Hendry MP
David Jefferies CBE FEng
Joan MacNaughton CB
Michael Roberts OBE
Ruth Thompson OBE
Graham Ward CBE
Glenis Willmott MEP
John Wybrew

CHRISTINE STEWART MUNRO
Executive Secretary

  • Former Councillor: London Borough of Camden
  • Former researcher to backbench Members of Parliament
  • Founding Administrative Secretary of the All Party Parliamentary Group for the Chemical Industry
  • Founding Executive Secretary of the Parliamentary Group for Energy Studies
  • Founder Editor of Energy Focus (www.pges.org.uk)
  • Founding Administrative Secretary of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Building Societies and Financial Mutuals
  • Hon. Fellow of the Energy Institute
  • Patron of the Government Affairs Group
  • Trustee of two charities
  • Inland Revenue Commissioner