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CEO, PROTEUS MARINE RENEWABLES, UK

Drew Blaxland


With over 35 years of management experience, Drew Blaxland has been one of the pioneers of marine renewable energy, specifically tidal since 2007. He has led a number of world firsts in this area, including in the UK and ground-breaking new projects in Asia in 2021. Passionate about the reduction in cost of energy in tidal, his team have delivered a number of key products and services innovations to continue that downward trend. Drew is from Sydney, Australia originally, and before getting into tidal he had spent a considerable portion of his professional career in the Balkans, where notably he headed up the civilian United Nations engineering support to peace-keeping forces in Bosnia. He has an honours degree in Civil Engineering and an MBA from Bond University awarded with High Distinction.

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