Juliet Davenport
Juliet Davenport OBE is a British businesswoman. She founded and is the chief executive of Good Energy, a leading renewable energy company in the United Kingdom.Davenport was born in Haslemere, Surrey, in 1968.
She read physics as an undergraduate at Merton College, Oxford before taking a master's degree in economics and environmental economics at Birkbeck, University of London. She also worked for a year at the European Commission on European energy policy and at the European Parliament on carbon taxation.Career
Davenport began working with Energy for Sustainable Development, an environmental consultancy. While there, she ran technology models and analysed policies on renewable energy from countries around Europe.
In 1999 Davenport set up Unit, a subsidiary of the Monkton Group, of which she later became CEO. In 2003, Unit was renamed Good Energy. The company has won several awards, including being twice named a Sunday Times Best Green Company, Wiltshire Wildlife Trust’s Outstanding Contribution to the Environment 2009 and The Observer’s Ethical Award for best online retail initiative. In 2012, Davenport was named as PLUS CEO of the year.
Davenport was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours List 2013.Personal life
Davenport is married to Mark Shorrock and has a daughter and a stepdaughter.
