Prof Ron Loveland is a very experienced technologist and member of the senior civil service- having worked extensively at the industry/government interface on technology, innovation, enterprise and energy matters over the last 30 years. Following holding the post of Director: Sustainable Energy and Industry in the previous Welsh Assembly Government, he was appointed over ten years ago as the Energy Advisor to the Welsh Government with a mix of path-finding, advisory and ambassadorial roles (local and international) associated with helping to deliver the ambitious Net Zero objectives for Wales on a joined-up government basis.

Prior to holding these positions, Ron was the Chief Technology Officer responsible for advising the Welsh Assembly Government on energy, steel, telecommunications and more general sustainable business-development policies. Ron came to Wales in 1986 as head of the Wales innovation and technology(WINtech) operation within the then Welsh Development Agency- which followed undertaking a mix of academic and industrial research related roles in Scotland and England including: seminal work on a-Si photoconductivity; health and safety research and regulation and Whitehall-based, micro & opto-electronic industries sponsorship