Prof Dr Michaela Kendall
CEO, Adelan; UK Hydrogen Champion for Mission Innovation, UK Government

Dr Michaela Kendall is CEO and co-founder of fuel cell pioneers Adelan (Birmingham, UK). One of the world’s first fuel cell businesses, Adelan commercialises a clean energy technology she co-invented in the early 1990s.

Over a 30-year career, she has secured significant international funding, working with powerful strategic policy and technical networks vital to low carbon business, including the US EPA, the UN, the EU and national governments. She has co-authored a series of Hydrogen Technology Strategies for these groups.

Managing industrial R&D programmes funded by the US, EU and Chinese governments, Dr Kendall plays a key role in building the UK’s national fuel cell strategy and is the Hydrogen Champion for the UK since 2021.

As a leading environmental scientist with faculty positions in America, Asia and Europe, Dr Kendall also holds academic posts (including Visiting Professorships) at UK universities.

Addressing the emissions, security and cost of energy throughout her career, her personal goal is to foster the widest possible international cooperation to realise the ambitions of global hydrogen and fuel cell networks to achieve net zero.

Follow Dr Kendall on X/Twitter: @MichaelaKenda17

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