LEADERSHIP TEAM
Our People
Leadership team
Partner
Dr John Llewellyn
John co-heads both our Macroeconomics and Financial Markets team, and our Expert witness and litigation support practice areas. He plays a major part in all of our conjunctural and other economic analysis.
He has a broad experience, having worked in academia, international and then national policymaking, and in investment banking. Before advising HM Treasury during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and its aftermath, and co-founding the firm in 2009, John was Global Chief Economist and then Senior Economic Policy Advisor at Lehman Brothers. This followed almost twenty years at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, where he was successively Head of International Forecasting and Policy Analysis and Editor of the OECD Economic Outlook; Deputy Director for Social Affairs, Manpower and Education, and finally Chef de Cabinet to the Secretary-General.
Prior to that he spent nearly ten years at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge, and was also a Fellow of St. John’s College.
John holds an undergraduate degree from the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and a doctorate from the University of Oxford. He has published widely.
Managing Partner
Preston J. Llewellyn
Preston leads the organisation on all aspects of strategy, team leadership and operations, and key client and assignment management across its global network.
An experienced business leader, Preston also works substantively on all projects, and has written on and led projects on subjects ranging from the decarbonisation of industry to ESG, digitalisation, and technology, including importantly a specialist series on new technologies that stand to have practical application in industries over the coming ten years.
Before co-founding the organisation in 2009 he spent ten years at the industrial coalface serving in various senior roles on corporate strategy, business development, communications, and marketing.
Preston holds a BA and an MSc (Maitrise Sc. Ec.) in Economics with French from the University of Sussex and the University of Grenoble, and an MBA from Imperial College, London.
Chair
Terry Scuoler
Terry is an industrialist, Chairman, non-executive Director, and business advisor.
He is Chair of the Institute of Export & International Trade, Talent Retention Solutions (TRS), and is an advisor to a number of companies.From 2010-17 Terry was the CEO of the Engineering Employers Federation (EEF) representing some 20,000 UK companies at the highest levels of government including sitting on a number of high profile Ministerial Committees.
During his tenure at the EEF he served, from 2010-1017, as Chairman of the Council of European Employers for the Metals, Manufacturing and Technologies industries representing some 230,000 companies at the top tables in Brussels and EU member state capitals.
Prior to joining EEF Terry was Managing Director of Ferranti Technologies which he transformed from loss making and decline into a highly successful and profitable organisation.
Terry is a graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and has a Masters degree in Political Economy and Economic History from the University of Glasgow.
Senior Associate
Dimitri Zenghelis
Dimitri heads our Sustainability practice Area and is also a core member of our Macroeconomics and Financial Markets team.
An internationally reputed economist, Dimitri advises governments, banks, financial institutions, NGOs, and other international organisations and corporations on sustainability, climate change, innovation, economic modelling, and clean urbanisation.
He set up the Wealth Economy Project at the Bennett Institute at the University of Cambridge, is a visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics (LSE), Chair of the Wealth Committee for Capital Generation Partners, and a member of the London Sustainable Development Commission.
Prior to this he served as Head of the Grantham Research Institute at the LSE and Chief Economist for the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate.
He was also lead author on the ground-breaking Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change and worked at HM Treasury as Head of Economic Forecasting.
Dimitri holds a BA from the University of Oxford and an MSc from the University of Bristol.
Senior Economist
Silja Sepping
Senior Associate
Simon Commander
He holds an MA from Oxford University and a PhD from Cambridge University.
Senior Associate
Martin Fraenkel
Senior Associate
Peter Collinson
Peter heads our Technology Transformation practice area. His expertise is gleaned over 25 years in the energy sector, working for an oil major and joint venture partners around the world. His current focus is in maritime technology and business transformation through delivering ‘digitalization and decarbonisation solutions’ for traditional and renewable energy clients.
Peter has worked extensively on the strategic development and deployment of new technology in the energy sector, specifically robotic Marine Autonomous Systems (MAS). He has supported many pre-commercial developments of technology, both under and on the water, small and large. He is a member of the robotics committees for UKRI (Innovate UK Government) and is Industry Lead for NERC’s Net Zero Oceanographic Capability project, aiming to decarbonise the UK’s scientific fleet by 2035.
He conducts technology R&D and M&A activity in the maritime sector for a variety of clients, holds a PhD in Marine Ecology from the University of Hong Kong and is a Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST).
Senior Associate
Tim Thomas
Senior Associate
Steve Cutts
Senior Associate
Nick Greenstock
Senior Associate
Lt General (Rtd) Sir Andrew Graham CB CBE
A former Deputy Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq, a Brigade Commander in Northern Ireland and Director General of the United Kingdom Defence Academy, Andrew is an acknowledged expert in global defence and security and the wider geo-political challenges of emerging threat levels, conflict, post-conflict and disaster recovery and nation building.
He has served as a non-executive Director of a major UK Government department, been closely involved in three UK national Defence and Security Reviews and has worked as an Advisor and Ambassador to a number of international Corporations, Agencies and Organisations.
Andrew is a graduate of Cambridge University where he studied Languages and History.Research Economist
Soyon Park
Associate
Dr James Cameron
James contributes to the Technology Transformation practice area, and to our Technologies series. As an industrial research scientist, he focusses in particular on areas of science and technology with relatively immediate business applications – to date some 50 topics have been covered, ranging from brain computer interfaces, to carbon capture, storage, and utilisation (CCUS).
Prior to his move to the Hague in early 2022, James was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungzentrum (DRFZ) in Berlin, and a Fellow at the UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), where he provided research on Advanced Therapy Medicinal Product (ATMP) regulation.
James holds a BSc from the University of York and a PhD from the University of Birmingham.
Analyst
Michael Roberts
Dr John Llewellyn
Partner
Preston J. Llewellyn
Managing Partner
Terry Scuoler
Chair
Dimitri Zenghelis
Senior Associate
Silja Sepping
Senior Economist
Simon Commander
Senior Associate
Martin Fraenkel
Senior Associate
Peter Collinson
Senior Associate
Tim Thomas
Senior Associate
Steve Cutts
Senior Associate
Nick Greenstock
Senior Associate
Lt General (Rtd) Sir Andrew Graham CB CBE
Senior Associate
Soyon Park
Research Economist
Dr James Cameron
Associate
Michael Roberts
Analyst
Advisory group
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