Industrial and manufacturing

Josh Dalby is the Global Head of Engineering Technology for Ricardo. He holds an MEng in Engineering from King’s College, Cambridge, and joined Ricardo as a graduate engineer in 2008.

During his career at Ricardo, Josh has specialised in complex projects for a wide range of customers requiring innovation, research and development and new technology. He has been the technical lead on projects incorporating a variety of advanced technology, such as hybrid vehicle optimisation, geofencing, multi-speed electric drive units and hydrogen.

Georgina is our Poison Centre Product Manager. Georgie works closely with poison centre authoritative bodies to provide expert knowledge in the requirements for fulfilling our customers Annex VIII obligations in each member State. A skilled project coordinator, Georgie manages our poison centre team alongside related notification and consultancy projects, from data collection to close-down reports and everything in-between. Georgie is actively involved as part of her clients’ teams, ensuring they are aware of the necessary steps to maintain their ongoing compliance. She maintains a continuous review of her customers’ requirements and it is her proactivity and extensive Member State knowledge that clients value most.

Georgie is a dynamic project and people manager with a strong track record of implementing innovative ideas through strategic planning, collaboration, and dedicated execution and works hard to ensure client satisfaction

Nikunj Panchal is Ricardo’s Global Vice President of Energy, Infrastructure Transition. He has over 25 years’ experience optimising business and delivering projects across the entire global energy value chain, working internationally in the UK, Norway, Azerbaijan, India and Australia.

Akin Adamson is the Middle East Director for Ricardo, with his responsibility including the UAE and KSA. Ricardo advises public and private sector organisations on air quality, renewable energy, energy decarbonisation, alternative fuels, water, waste, transport and climate change strategies, technologies and operations.

Previously, he was the UK's Transport Research Laboratory’s Regional Director for the Middle East, and before that, he held senior consulting and Director level roles at Nokia Siemens Networks, Telstra and A.T. Kearney in the UK and Australia, with a focus on the Telecommunications, Transportation and Automotive sectors.

He combines his experience in the telco, transport and environmental industries to advise a wide range of clients on smart and sustainable cities and infrastructure.

Having begun his research career at London Business School in the energy sector, Akin has lectured at both London Business School and the London School of Economics. He holds both UK and Australian citizenship and travels extensively throughout the Middle East region. He was educated at the London School of Economics, London Business School and the University of Michigan, USA.