Tom Delay, Chief Executive, The Carbon Trust   Tom Delay is a chartered engineer with extensive experience of the energy supply sector. After gaining a first class honours degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Southampton in 1981, Tom joined Shell as a graduate trainee in the company’s marketing and distribution division. He was subsequently posted, in 1982, to Djibouti where he worked as Shell’s operations & engineering manager. His posting coincided with the ‘Live Aid’ concerts and the subsequent relief effort in north east Africa. Tom was involved in helping to establish bases for RAF flights carrying much-needed food supplies into Ethiopia and the surrounding region. Returning to the UK in 1985, Tom became a project engineer with Shell UK and subsequently spent a year at INSEAD in France studying for an MBA. He was supported by a Sainsbury Management Fellowship and gained a distinction. Returning to Shell as sales and marketing manager for commercial lubricants in 1988, Tom was involved in assessing associated energy efficiency and fuel economy issues. He moved back to Africa in 1992 where he spent four years as general manager of Pizo Shell – a Shell subsidiary – based in Gabon, but managing Shell’s marketing activities in Congo and the Cameroon. Leaving Shell in 1996, Tom took up a position with strategy consultants McKinsey and Co in London, moving two years later to the Global Energy Practice of A.T.Kearney where he was a principal. He was appointed the first Chief Executive of the Carbon Trust in 2001 where he is able to draw upon his wide-ranging engineering and managerial skills and expertise.