Tom Greatrex – Chief Executive, Nuclear Industry Association
Tom Greatrex has been the Chief Executive of the Nuclear Industry Association on 1 February 2016. In that capacity, he is the leading representative of the UK’s civil nuclear energy sector and has the led the NIA through a time of unprecedented political interest in the deployment of nuclear technology.
Formerly MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West, Tom was shadow energy minister from 2011 – 2015 and the opposition’s lead spokesman on nuclear energy, electricity market reform, smart grid and metering, carbon capture and storage, interconnection and both onshore and offshore oil and gas. He also served as a member of the Energy Select Committee from 2010 and from 2007-2010 was a policy adviser in the Scotland Office, including on energy.
In a varied prior career, he was Director of Corporate Affairs for the NHS in Scotland, a chief officer in local government and a GMB trade union official in England. Outside of work his main interests are family, football (Fulham) and film.