Senior Policy Adviser, Net Zero Innovation, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ)

Victoria Honour is a Senior Policy Adviser at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) in the Science & Innovation for Climate & Energy Directorate, where she works on access to finance and innovative funding mechanisms to help early-stage innovative cleantech companies scale, and leads on the DESNZ investment into the Clean Growth Fund. She joined the Civil Service in 2019, working in energy innovation strategy in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), before leading and delivering the Biomass Feedstocks Innovation Programme.

Prior to this Victoria completed her PhD in Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. During her PhD, Victoria paused her research to become a Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (POST) Fellow, placed with the House of Commons Select Committee for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA). Following the Fellowship, she then worked for the Committee on an inquiry, before returning to research.

Her first degree is in Earth Sciences (Oxford University), and she also has a Masters in Mining Geology (Camborne School of Mines).