Ben Backwell

Ben Backwell has spent most of his career covering international energy markets and finance. He worked for international news agencies and as an analyst in Houston, Caracas, New York, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, and covered the oil producers' organisation OPEC, before moving back to his native UK in 2006. He then worked as an analyst covering major oil companies before joining renewable energy news service Recharge ahead of its launch in January 2009. He became Editor-in-Chief of Recharge in 2012. In 2015 joined global consulting firm FTI Consulting to help build its renewable energy practice and current advices major renewables companies on their strategic communications and business strategies.

He has a master's degree in politics from the University of London.