Prof Ian M. Arbon MSc, MBA, CEng, CEnv, FIMechE, FASME, FEI, FInstR, FIES: Senior Partner, Engineered Solutions
Ian Arbon is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer, a Registered European Engineer and a Chartered Environmentalist, with an MSc in ‘Renewable Energy and the Environment’ and an MBA. Formerly MD of several UK engineering-sector manufacturing companies, he now runs Engineered Solutions, a Sustainable Engineering consultancy, as well as being non-executive Chairman of Vert Rotors UK Ltd.
Ian is a Fellow of IMechE; having chaired its Energy, Environment & Sustainability Group and its Renewable Power Committee, he has a long history in leading the Institution’s work in Energy-from-Waste and Waste as a Resource. He was Lead Author of it’s the Institution’s Report: “Energy from Waste: a wasted opportunity” and policy statement: “Waste as a Resource”. He is also a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Energy Institute, the Institute of Refrigeration and the Institute of Engineers & Shipbuilders in Scotland; he has been a Visiting Professor in Alternative Energy at Newcastle University and Module Leader for ‘Energy Policies, Politics and Ethics’ on its REFLEX and REEM MSc courses since 2006; he has been an Honorary Professor in Sustainable Energy at the University of Glasgow since 2010 and teaches an MEng/MSc Module on Energy from Waste.