Graeme Cooper Project Director - Transport Decarbonisation National Grid

Graeme leads National Grid’s work on transport decarbonisation enabling the journey to Net-Zero transport (Road, Rail, Aviation and Maritime).

He also leads the drive towards the Net-Zero 2050 target, by delivering a pathway for critical connections in the East of England by 2030 to enable delivery of the UK’s Offshore Wind Sector Deal.

With over a decade in communications infrastructure and over a decade in low/zero carbon electricity, Cooper’s experience in the industry speaks for itself.

Cooper practises what he preaches, taking his decarbonisation work home with him as he drives an electric car and heats his home using ground source heat pumps.

Ben Fletcher EV project lead Moixa

Ben has 20 years’ automotive experience, having worked at both Renault UK and Jaguar Land Rover. 

Lately, Fletcher spent six years as head of Renault UK’s electric vehicle operation, playing a key role in getting some of the first mainstream EVs to the market and ensuring their commercial success. He currently works for cleantech software specialists Moixa, on a joint intelligent energy management project for EVs with Honda.

In his spare time, Ben enjoys tinkering with a variety of British Leyland/Austin Rover cars, proving that passions for the classics and EVs are not mutually exclusive.

Steve Cropley Editor-in-chief Autocar

Steve Cropley has been testing cars and writing about it for 48 years, more than half that time as editor-in-chief of Autocar. He began working in journalism in Australia in 1967, joined the staff of Sydney-based Wheels magazine in 1973, moved to the UK in 1978 to join the staff of CAR magazine, and was editor between 1981 to 1988, during which time CAR became Britain’s best-selling car magazine.

In 1989 he launched his own magazine, Buying Cars, bought two years later by Haymarket Media Group, who used its contributors and content to augment their existing titles What Car? and Autocar. He has worked “very happily” at Haymarket ever since. His Autocar column “A week in cars” has been a prominent part of Autocar for nearly 30 years.

In 2005 Cropley helped found the world’s first postgraduate course in automotive journalism at Coventry University, where was made a visiting professor. He is a Trustee of the British Motor Museum, Gaydon. Since 2005 he has organised and chaired a series of technical panel debates for the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and in 2013 was made a Companion of the Institution.

Cropley claims he remains as keen on cars - and the industry that creates them - as he was on day one. 

Mark Tisshaw Editor Autocar

Mark is a journalist with more than a decade of top-level experience in the automotive industry. He first joined Autocar in 2009, having previously worked in local newspapers. He has held several roles at Autocar, including news editor, deputy editor, digital editor and his current position of editor, one he has held since 2017.

From this position he oversees all of Autocar’s content across the print magazine, autocar.co.uk website, social media, video, and podcast channels, as well as our recent launch, Autocar Business. Mark regularly interviews the very top global executives in the automotive industry, telling their stories and holding them to account, meeting them at shows and events around the world.

Mark is a Car of the Year juror, a prestigious annual award that Autocar is one of the main sponsors of. He has made media appearances on the likes of the BBC, and contributed to titles including What Car?, Move Electric and Pistonheads, and also writes a regular column for The Sun.

He graduated from Norton College in Sheffield in 2008 with an NCTJ journalism qualification.