Chairman
EURASIA PARTNERS
Charles Hendry was Conservative Member of Parliament for Wealden from 2001-2015 and was Minister of State for Energy from May 2010 until September 2012. He was previously the Conservative Party’s spokesman on energy issues, holding the portfolio longer than any previous Minister.
The Prime Minister thereafter appointed him as his Trade Envoy to Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, holding the post until the 2015 General Election when he left Parliament. He is now Chairman of Eurasia Partners.
Since leaving Ministerial office, he has been appointed as a Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh (in both the Business School and the Academy of Government). Charles is President of the British Institute of Energy Economics; and President of the Advisory Board of the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce and of the British Chamber of Commerce in Kazakhstan.
He is Chairman of the Forewind Consortium (Statoil, Statkraft, SSE and RWE), which is currently seeking consent to build the world’s largest offshore wind farm in the North Sea. He is an adviser to Atlantic Superconnection, which is looking to construct a transmission cable to bring low-carbon electricity from Iceland to the UK; to Vitol, one of the world’s largest energy trading companies; and to AECOM.
He has also held the business, higher education and youth portfolios for the Conservative Party; as well as the role of Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party.
Prior to entering Parliament, Charles had his own communications consultancy, supporting chairmen and chief executives in their corporate networking. He was Chief of Staff to the Foreign Secretary, William Hague MP, when he became Leader of the Conservative Party.