Speakers

Mark Coles served his apprenticeship as an electrician with the UK Atomic Energy Authority and worked on many nuclear projects including the decommissioning of Windscale Piles 1 and 2. After studying electrical and electronic engineering at London South Bank University, Mark worked as contracts and project manager in electrical contracting at Canary Wharf and then held the post of operations engineer with NICEIC.

Currently, Mark is head of technical regulations at the IET and is responsible for the development of BS 7671, IET Guidance Notes and associated Codes of Practice. An experienced standards maker, he holds the convenorships of numerous international and European technical committees and is an appointed UK expert on many others, setting standards for low voltage electrical installations across the world. Mark is also the committee manager for JPEL/64, the UK technical committee responsible for BS 7671, Requirements for Electrical Installations, The IET Wiring Regulations.