Mr Paul Stein CBE

Paul is the Chief Executive Officer of Floral Energy Limited, a clean energy company which he co-founded in 2024.

Paul has had a broadly based career in telecommunications, defence, aerospace and energy. He was Managing Director of Roke Manor Research until 2006, then Director General of Science and Technology at the Ministry of Defence, Chief Technology Officer of Rolls-Royce plc until 2022, then chaired its spin-out business Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactors.

Paul is a Board member of iRocket LLC, a space launch business, an advisor to Zap Energy LLC, a Seattle based fusion company, and mentors several start-ups. He has honorary doctorates from Cranfield, Strathclyde and Derby Universities, is a visiting professor at Cranfield University, is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, has been appointed to the National Cyber Advisory Board, served on the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology from 2020 to 2024 and was awarded the CBE for Services to the Economy in 2022.