Humphrey Cadoux-Hudson: Managing Director Nuclear Development, EDF Energy
Humphrey
studied Engineering and Management at Manchester University and worked at KPMG
before joining Seeboard in 1991
He
was appointed Executive Director in May 2000 with responsibility for Seeboard's
non-regulated businesses and group strategy and following Seeboard’s
acquisition by EDF Group in 2002, he was appointed Strategy and Development
Director and later that year Chief Financial Officer and became a member of the
Board.
After
working on the £12.5bn acquisition of British Energy, in 2009 Humphrey was
appointed Managing Director of Nuclear New Build leading the team that gained
approval of the EPR design in the UK, planning permission, nuclear site
licence, negotiated revenue and decommissioning contracts with Government and
achieving financing of the Hinkley Point C project with EDF and Chinese
partners CGN in 2016 and full mobilisation of construction.
In
September 2017 Humphrey passed responsibility for the Hinkley Point Project to
Stuart Crooks, Managing Director HPC, and took on the role of Managing Director
Nuclear Development focussed on Sizewell C, Decommissioning of the AGR fleet,
SMRs and EDF’s involvement in Bradwell with partners CGN.