Duncan is a Chartered Town Planner with over 11 years’ experience across infrastructure consenting, environmental assessment and policy development. He leads on offshore planning and environmental policy and contributes to addressing planning matters more widely across the UK and Ireland for ScottishPower Renewables (SPR). Duncan’s role is focused on co-ordinating policy and strategic work to facilitate the efficient deployment of renewable energy projects. This includes advising on infrastructure consenting regimes, managing strategic stakeholder engagement and leading SPR's approach to offshore planning and environmental policy consultations across the UK and Ireland. He also leads on consenting and environmental strategies for SPR’s three ScotWind projects with a total capacity of 7GW.

Prior to joining SPR Duncan had 9 years’ consultancy experience, including leading the delivery of planning and EIA services for major infrastructure projects and managing Strategic Environmental Assessments to support the development of spatial plans across the UK.

Duncan is currently an elected corporate member of the RTPI’s Scottish Executive Committee and Planning Policy Subcommittee, member of the SOWEC Barriers to Deployment – Enabling Group and Scotland’s developer representative on the OWIC Pathways to Growth Co-ordination Group. These are the Scottish and UK workstreams focused on addressing consenting barriers to the achievement of offshore wind deployment and net zero targets.