Meet our Chair

Matthew Cole is a passionate champion of consumers across the energy landscape. He ensures that their circumstances are understood, their needs are better met, and their stories are told.

Matt launched and now heads up the Fuel Bank Foundation. Fuel Bank provides same-day financial support and proactive advice to families living without heat or power, using the lived experience of the 1.5 million people helped to date to influence and shape government policy and industry standards, and to drive a renewed focus on delivering great customer outcomes back across the energy industry.

Matt is the chair of the Scottish Government’s Fuel Poverty Advisory Panel, and continues to advocate and provide a voice for some of the most vulnerable groups in society across the utilities sector where his focus is to ensure that the drive to net zero includes at its very heart the most vulnerable. Providing unique perspectives and structured challenge he is passionate about championing how the most vulnerable can potentially gain the most, through having access to cheaper and more stable energy bills and live in better quality, less leaky, more energy efficient homes.