Megan Smith leads the offshore wind advisory team at Carbon Trust, focusing on providing policy and industrial strategy advice to industry and the public sector globally. She is a policy expert with a strong track record in supporting policy makers to accelerate the growth and reduce the cost of their local offshore wind industry efficiently and sustainably. Megan has supported a wide range of clients, including offshore wind developers, technology innovators and key policy makers in Japan, Colombia, the USA, Wales, Scotland, England, Ireland, Taiwan, and China.

Megan is a fluid dynamicist by background, with degrees in Mathematics from Imperial College London and Bristol University and spent several years as a Senior Policy Analyst at Ofgem developing the UK’s Offshore Wind Transmission regime before joining the Carbon Trust in 2013. Since being at Carbon Trust, she has led a large number of offshore wind research and development programmes, including several technology demonstration projects under the Offshore Wind Accelerator, the UK’s flagship £100m R&D programme, through which her team has delivered a 15% cost reduction in offshore wind in the UK alone.