Robert Evans

Robert Evans is chief executive officer of Cenex, the United Kingdom’s first Centre of Excellence for Low Carbon and Fuel Cell Technologies.  Cenex was established in 2005 with United Kingdom government support to help accelerate the market for low carbon vehicles.   He currently represents Cenex on the Technology Group of the UK’s Automotive Council, as well as the Steering Group and Industry Group of the Low Carbon Vehicle Innovation Platform run by the UK Government’s Technology Strategy Board to fund low carbon vehicle Research, Development and Demonstration.

Prior to joining Cenex, Mr. Evens worked for 18 years with Johnson Matthey, ten of which were spent developing international markets for environmental and automotive technologies, including fuel cells and vehicle emissions control. 

Mr. Evens has served on a number of Government and Industry bodies including the United Kingdom’s Government’s Cleaner Vehicles Task Force (1998-2000) and Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (2003-2006). He holds a master’s in management science from Imperial College London and a master’s in corporate affairs and communication (Motor Industry) from Leeds University in the UK.  Heis an alumni of the Prince of Wales’s Business and the Environment Programme.