Mike Lockett holds the dual of role of Chief Commercial Office Power for the Uniper Group and Uniper UK Country Chairman.

Mike has worked in various engineering and commercial roles since joining the UK electricity industry in 1997. A chartered electrical engineer, he spent the first years of his career with Midlands Electricity in its networks business, and later in Central Networks after the takeover by E.ON in 2004. He moved to E.ON’s trading business in Düsseldorf in 2008, where he subsequently held a range of management roles.

Since 2017, Mike has been Chief Commercial Officer Power. In this role, he is responsible for power and fuels commodity trading and optimisation, and dispatch of Uniper’s generation portfolio.

In 2015, he became a Board Member of the newly-established Uniper UK Ltd company, helping to steer the legal entity through the separation from E.ON UK, and supporting the establishment of the UK business. He was appointed Uniper UK Country Chairman in January 2019.

Mike is a member of the Supervisory Board of the European Energy Exchange (Leipzig), and the Management Board of Powernext (Paris).