Ceres Power Holdings plc announced the appointment of Professor Dame Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge DBE FREng FRS, as an independent Non-executive Director effective from 17 June 2021 immediately following the Company's Annual General Meeting. Baroness Brown is an engineer with immense experience across industry and government. Following an academic career at Cambridge University, Julia held senior engineering and business roles at Rolls-Royce between 1994 and 2002, before returning to academia as Principal of Engineering at Imperial College and then as Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive of Aston University from 2006-2016.   She is currently Chair of The Carbon Trust, a non-executive director of Ørsted, Chair of the Adaptation Committee of the Climate Change Committee and a member of the BEIS Hydrogen Advisory Council.