Biography

Prof. Juergen Maier CBE, FRS, FREng, FIET, FCGI

Industrialist, Chair of Great British Energy, Co-founder of vocL and former Chief Executive of Siemens UK

Juergen is an Industrialist and a strong advocate for the green re-industrialisation of UK’s economy. Juergen served as the former Chief Executive of Siemens UK. Over his 33 year career with Siemens, he held a number of senior roles within Siemens in the UK and Germany. During Juergen’s leadership at Siemens UK, the company played a pivotal role in UK’s industrial digitalisation, investment in transport infrastructure and the decarbonisation of the electricity system.

Juergen is Chair of Great British Energy and Chair of the Digital Catapult. He advises tech start-up and scale-up businesses which are a key part of the industrial ecosystem creating the green 4th Industrial revolution.

Juergen takes a strong leadership role for UK’s industrial, infrastructure and manufacturing community. He has served on the Board of the Department of Business and Energy from 2014 to 2016. His work supported several previous Government Industrial Strategy initiatives. In 2017, he was asked by the then Government to lead a review into how to increase the digitalisation of the UK manufacturing sector, which has since led to the creation of the joint industry and government Made Smarter¹⁾initiative driving advanced digitalisation, productivity and decarbonisation in the manufacturing sector.

In the Autumn of 2023, Juergen was commissioned by the Labour Party to lead in independent review on improving the state of the UK’s Urban and Rail public transport. The review was published in August 2024²⁾

Juergen believes that businesses should play an active role in society and community matters. To further this mission, he co-founded the social enterprise vocL.

Juergen became a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2022 and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in September 2017. He has also received honorary doctorates from several UK Universities³⁾

He was awarded a CBE in the New Years honours list 2019.

1) You can read / download the Made Smarter review at: https://juergenmaier.co.uk/published-reviews/

2) You can read / download the Rail & Urban transport review at: https://juergenmaier.co.uk/published-reviews/

3) Juergen is an honorary Professor at Nottingham Trent University at the University of Manchester and at Manchester Metropolitan Univeristy has received honorary doctorates for his services to UK Science and Engineering from the Universities of Lincoln, Nottingham Trent, Salford Manchester, Cranfield, Sheffield, Hull, Lancaster and Manchester Metropolitan. Juergen was also awarded a Fellowship of the City & Guilds Institute in 2020, in recognition of skills development support for technical apprenticeships and workplace upskilling for 4th Industrial Revolution technologies.