Our directors and advisors define the company’s research agenda, in consultation with clients, and their expertise shapes Aurora’s forecasting models, analyses, and reports.


Since beginning his business career with Deutsche Bank he has advised a number of major government and private sector clients – previously working with the Boston Consulting Group throughout Australia and South-East Asia.
John is a Visiting Fellow of the University of Oxford. His commentary and analysis is regularly featured in international press and he has contributed papers for various academic journals.
He holds a first-class degree in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Melbourne, and MPhil and DPhil degrees in Economics, awarded with the George Webb Medley Prize, from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
After seven years with former banking giant Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, initially covering Russian oil and gas majors, John-Paul joined US-based investment giant Bear Stearns as Managing Director for telecoms and media before co-founding a Tanzanian agribusiness for biofuel which grew into East Africa’s largest rice producer.
He read Philosophy and French at Oxford and has further achieved an MGA from the University of Pennsylvania as a Thouron Scholar.
He was previously CEO of Wood Mackenzie from 2007 to 2015 – playing a key role in its transition to Verisk where he took on the role of Chairman, Natural Resources. He has also held energy roles in oil and gas with both BP and Total.
Steve is a board member for ThinkSprint, Scottish Equity Partners and Aistemos as well as Aurora.
He has an honours degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Edinburgh.
With a strong track record as a dynamic business professional, she has successfully delivered major digital transformation projects for clients globally including utilities providers, the oil and gas industry, CPG and pharmaceutical companies.
In her previous roles she was responsible for operations management at award-winning SAP consultancy Agility Works – developing and leading the company’s global business processes and client operations team.
Caroline is a qualified PRINCE2 practitioner and has a background in finance and client relations.
Prior to joining Aurora, Ana worked at CRA where she focused on energy disputes and policy and regulatory work. Ana also worked at KPMG in the Power & Utilities Strategy team, as well as in the Commodity & Energy Risk Management team. Ana started her career with a US-based energy consulting firm specializing in wholesale electricity price forecasting, power plant dispatch and gross margin modelling, portfolio strategy, energy market advisory, and risk and uncertainty modelling for utilities, financial institutions, and infrastructure developers in the US, Latin America and Europe. She was also operations manager for a team in charge of energy management and energy procurement for large industrial and commercial clients in the UK and mainland Europe.
Ana holds an Energy MBA from Warwick University and a BSc. Economics from George Mason University.
He is the author of several major cross-industry energy studies, and advises on all aspects of the Australian and European power markets. He has led buy and sell-side energy due diligence for over £5bn of UK, Ireland and Australian assets, and led our National Electricity Market modelling – including modelling the evolution of Middle Eastern energy markets for a major client.
Hugo has previously worked as Project Leader for energy and resources at McKinsey & Co. in Sydney and New York.
He has a Law degree from the University of Melbourne and an MBA and MPA from the University of Oxford.
While at Aurora, Jonathan has:
Advanced Aurora’s modelling for the cross-industry study on ‘The New Economics of Offshore Wind’
Been responsible for the modelling behind multiple Aurora forecasts and commissioned projects
Prior to joining Aurora Jonathan worked at The National Physical Laboratory in the Mathematics, Modelling and Simulation group where his main work involved developing optimisation algorithms for the placement of sensors in an electricity grid.
Jonathan holds a MSci in Theoretical Physics and Applied Mathematics from the University of Birmingham and a DPhil in Applied Mathematics from the University of Oxford.
This has included advising on over £5bn in transactions of power infrastructure across Europe, leading the development of our GB Distributed and Flexible Energy Service, advising a UK government department and developing a power market balancing services strategy for a major utility company.
Felix started his professional career as a researcher at the Bank of Canada before lecturing at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford.
He holds MPhil and DPhil degrees in Economics from the University of Oxford and has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.
He has managed a number of key innovation studies including the development of the electric vehicle sector and its implications for the energy system, the possible effects of different future subsidy design scenarios for GB renewables, and commercial due diligence projects for generation and storage assets in Great Britain and Ireland.
Benjamin previously worked at Oliver Wyman, managing consulting projects across a range of sectors including energy, financial services and retail. He was aligned with the firm’s Pricing, Sales and Marketing practice, turning clients’ largest data sets into actionable insights.
He has a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge.
Before joining Aurora he was a Director and Head of Energy and Environment at Policy Exchange, where he authored a number of influential reports on energy and environmental policy and regulation. Prior to that he was the Chief Economist at The Crown Estate.
Richard has a first class degree in Economics and an MSc in Environmental Policy.
After a project leadership role at BCG, advising European utilities on strategic, organisational and operational considerations, he was responsible for Strategic Business Development at Gazprom in Berlin before joining our team.
Sebastian holds a PhD in energy economics from University of Duisburg-Essen. His research on short-term flexibility markets for electricity in Germany was published in Energy Economics and Journal of Regulatory Economics. He studied business administration at Leipzig Graduate School of Management.
His professional experience includes advising BEH on its 1.4 EUR billion acquisition of EEW, and on major gas pipeline transactions, quantifying total system costs of coal-to-biomass conversions to support regulatory engagement for a major power utility, and developing an investment strategy in decentral generation assets for an infrastructure fund.
Manuel joined our team from McKinsey and Co. in Berlin, where he was a Project Manager and Senior Consultant.
Manuel studied Mathematics and Physics at the University of Gottingen, holds a PhD, magna cum laude, in Mathematics from the University of Gottingen and University of California, Berkeley where he studied as a Fulbright scholar.
Hanns co-founded Aurora’s Berlin office in 2015. Previously, he worked at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants as the executive assistant to the firm’s founder, Prof Roland Berger, and gained work experience with BCG, the International Energy Forum and the German Foreign Office.
Hanns holds a BA with first class honours in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford, and an MA with honors in International Relations & Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington and Bologna, where he was a Haniel Scholar of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.
She is exceptionally skilled in delivering pragmatic business partnering during change and growth, whilst consistently improving the high quality of our financial information and management.
Stacey began her career in the audit and assurance practice at Grant Thornton and has since held various commercial and financial leadership roles in consultancy and technology.
She is a member of ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales) and holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Reading.
He has previously worked with Capita and RM Education.
Stuart has a first-class degree in Computer Science (BSc) from Leeds University.
As well as authoring multiple well-received market insight reports, he has led our research into critical policy issues including the Capacity Market design and developed our flagship publication: the GB Power Market Forecast – followed by more than 80% of GB electricity market participants.
Mateusz was formerly a member of UBS Investment Bank’s M&A Execution Team in London, and prior to that a qualitative modeller for a collateralised debt firm.
He has a BA in Economics and Management from the University of Oxford and previously studied in Poland, where he was a Prime Minister scholar.