Chris became Chief Executive In January 2009. He has been a Director and Trustee of UK CEED since 2002.
Chris has worked at a senior level in a number of industries. His early career with food manufacturers Baxters of Speyside was followed by a number of years in the oil industry, mainly with Hamilton Oil and Gas. He then joined Nirex, eventually becoming Chief Executive for a period of 8 years until 2006. Nirex was responsible for trying to develop an environmentally safe and publicly acceptable means of disposing of the UK’s legacy and new arisings of nuclear waste from civil and military sources.
During that time he developed and successfully implemented a complete change in approach to the management of the UK’s radioactive waste, based on rigorous science, transparency and involvement that brought support for Nirex’s proposed solution from a wide range of stakeholders including Government, local authorities, local communities, the scientific community and green NGOs.
Since leaving Nirex he has been involved in a number of environmental projects, including the reuse of end-of-life building materials and incinerator residues. He is currently working on the development of a range of environmentally safe mineral polymer materials that replace hydrocarbon based polymers.
He is an economist and qualified accountant (FCCA).
Email: c.murray@ukceed.org | Tel: 01733 311644