Gardiner Hill is the Senior Advisor on CCS Technology, Regulations and Policy for BP Alternative Energy. He is responsible for developing strategies and advising on all matters related to carbon capture and storage across the portfolio of the BP group of companies.

Hill graduated from Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University with BSc and MSc degrees in civil and petroleum engineering and then joined the British National Oil Company which became Britoil, which was later taken over by BP in 1989.

He was involved heavily in the early stage of the research and development of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) and in 2000, Hill joined BP’s central Group Technology function and project managed the CO2 Capture Project, the first international joint industry scheme of its kind, involving 11 organisations including oil companies, the European Union, US and Norwegian governments, which together contributed $25 million to be spent on technology development.

Hill sits on the board of a range of associations and special projects including; Chairman for the Carbon Capture and Storage Industry Association, Chairman for the CO2 Carbon Capture Project, Vice Chairman of the Zero Emissions Power Technology Platform in Europe and is the manager accountable for the BP relationship with Princeton CMI programme and the Harvard Kennedy School ETI programme.