Delivery
Founding Chief Executive, CivicNetZero
A platform connecting cities, capital and delivery partners so that net zero and resilience projects move from plans to investable pipelines.
Engineer · Infrastructure leader · Independent voice
How net zero infrastructure gets delivered in practice.
Mark Apsey is an engineer and executive leader who has spent twenty-five years turning climate ambition into built infrastructure, from a £1 billion city partnership to the policy rooms where the system is being redesigned.
MBE · FREng · CEng · FIChemE
Current roles
All roles and appointmentsAcademy and policy
Royal Academy of Engineering
Fellow of the Academy, elected 2026, and a member of its Clean Power Advisory Working Group on the delivery risks of the UK's clean power mission.
Profession and education
Honorary Professor, University of Exeter
Honorary Professor of Engineering at Exeter; 83rd President of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (2024-25); Trustee of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering.
Recent writing and talks
Full listTransition risk and resilience
Chaired the session at the Westminster Energy Forum's UK Energy & Climate Resilience Review.
Engineering a Sustainable Future
Inaugural lecture as Honorary Professor of Engineering, University of Exeter.
Low-carbon fuels for shipping and maritime transport
Royal Academy of Engineering, National Engineering Policy Centre. Reviewer, with the Department for Transport as scoping partner.
Speaking, advisory and media
The challenge is not ambition. It is delivery.
Mark speaks and advises on city-scale decarbonisation, public-private partnership, clean power delivery and the engineering workforce. Enquiries are handled by his office.