John Gale joined the IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme in 1999 and managed the Programmes activities on Non-CO₂ greenhouse gases, greenhouse gas abatement in energy intensive industries and geological storage of CO₂ before becoming General Manager in 2008.  As General Manager he is responsible to the IEAGHG Executive Committee for ensuring the programmes activities are operated in accordance with legal requirement and IEAGHG’s technical work programme is delivered to time and budget. In addition to his work with the IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme: he was one of the co-coordinating lead authors on the 2005 IPCC Special Report on CO₂ Capture and storage and is currently Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Greenhouse Gas Control.  In addition, he has been a member of the Technical Advisory Committee to the GCCSI board between 2010 and 2013, Co-Chair of the Steering Committee for GHGT’s, 11, 12 and 13 and has acted as Chair of the UKCCSRS’s Independent Advisory Panel for the last 2 years.