Claire Haigh is to step down as managing director of Zemo Partnership, with Zemo’s director of finance, operations, and business development, Jonathan Murray, taking over the role.

Haigh will be taking up a new opportunity with the University of St Andrews Centre for Energy Ethics, which is hosting a major exhibition of her work – The Tabula Project. She will focus on this project for the rest of 2025 but will remain an associate of Zemo Partnership. Her report, The Art of Seeing, applies insights from The Tabula Project to addressing climate change.

Jonathan Murray has been with Zemo and the former Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership for nearly 20 years, previously working on transport and environment projects as director of transport at the Energy Saving Trust. He has led multiple key initiatives, including the Electric Vehicle Energy Taskforce (2019-23), which brought together over 350 cross-sectoral stakeholder organisations and significantly influenced UK policy on electrified transport.

Murray also leads Zemo’s work with the Welsh Government on decarbonising commercial vehicles, addressing net zero transport challenges, with major announcements expected next week. Over the past year, Zemo has published the Delivery Roadmap for Net Zero Transport, overseen by the Council for Net Zero Transport, chaired by Lord Deben. Claire has also overseen the growth of Zemo’s Renewable Fuels Assurance Scheme and the launch of the Sustainable Racing Fuel Assurance Scheme.

Haigh said: “I am passionate about tackling climate change and am truly delighted to have been given the opportunity to complete The Tabula Project which seeks to find new ways to address some of our most intractable problems.

“Transport and the environment will remain a key focus for me and I am heartened that, as I stand down as MD of Zemo, I leave the Partnership in the safe hands of Jonathan Murray, with whom I have worked very closely for many years.”

Murray added: “I am excited to take on this role at a critical time in the transition to decarbonised transport in the UK. We are well on the way to achieving our goals, though there are still challenges ahead both in policy and in delivery… but if we get this right, the opportunities to create benefits for both our economy and our environment are huge.

“I would like to wish Claire well in her endeavour, through which she seeks to tackle similar challenges, but from a different perspective.”

Murray will formally assume the role of acting managing director from Monday, March 31st.