The Sustainability Committee is a committee of Urenco’s Board of Directors. The Committee’s main areas of focus are the monitoring of key performance indicators in health, safety, environment, asset integrity, security and non-proliferation, safeguards, ethical conduct, social performance and employee engagement, including diversity and inclusion.
Sustainability Committee
Miriam Maes
Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Sustainability Committee
Miriam joined the Urenco Board in October 2015.
After managing businesses for Unilever, ICI and the Marmon Group, in 2002 she became a European Executive of Texas Utilities and then Chief Operating Officer of non-regulated distribution networks for Electricity de France (EDF) in the UK.
This was followed by roles as Advisor to the UK Department for Energy and Climate Change, Chief Executive Officer of energy and climate change strategy consultancy Foresee, and Chair of the Energy Transition Forum for the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
Miriam served as Chairman of the Board of the ELIA Group and Non-Executive Director on the Board of Vilmorin & Cie. She is currently Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Port of Rotterdam, Non-Executive Director on the Boards of Eramet, Assystem, and Ultra-Centrifuge Nederland N.V., member of the Advisory Committee of the Total-Tikehau Investment Fund, Pioneer Point Partners and Arcus Infrastructure Partners, and member of the Advisory Board of Lloyd's Register Group.
Boris Schucht
Chief Executive Officer
Boris was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Urenco Limited and joined the Urenco Board in May 2019.
He joined from 50Hertz, the North-East German Transmission System Operator, where he held the position of Chief Executive Officer from 2010 until 2019.
Boris previously held a number of senior executive positions within the energy sector across Europe, including WEMAG AG and the Vattenfall Group. He holds an MA in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Aachen.
Boris currently serves as a Director of the World Nuclear Association and as a member of the Supervisory Board of Flughafen Wien AG (Vienna Airport).
Frank Weigand
Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committee
Frank joined the Urenco Board in November 2014.
After completing a PhD in Physics at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, he joined McKinsey & Company Inc. in 1996.
In 2001, he became Director of Strategy and Quality Management at RWE Systems. In 2005, he was appointed Director of Corporate Planning and Controlling at RWE Power AG before becoming Vice President Controlling Group of RWE AG. From 2010 to 2012, he served as Chief Financial Officer of RWE npower plc in Swindon, UK. From 2013 to 2017, Frank was Chief Financial Officer of RWE Power AG and RWE Generation SE. Since January 2018, he has served as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of RWE Power AG.
Michael Harrison
Non-Executive Director
Michael was appointed Non-Executive Director of Urenco Limited and joined the Urenco Board in October 2021.
Michael qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC). He was Executive Director at Caliburn, a leading independent investment bank in Australia, and Director at Credit Suisse First Boston/BZW.
He has held a number of executive roles in UK government, including as Head of Governance/Portfolio at UK Government Investments (part of HM Treasury) where he was responsible for the commercial management of Government owned assets, including the British Business Bank and Channel 4.
Michael is currently a Non-Executive Director of Network Rail and a Director of Great British Railways Transition Team Limited, and has been a Non-Executive Director of several organisations, including Porton Biopharma, Ordnance Survey, the Met Office and Working Links, and served on the investment committee for a charity for civil servants.