he Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has appointed Dame Mary Archer and former EDF UK nuclear development managing director Humphrey Cadoux-Hudson CBE to its board. Cadoux-Hudson, who left EDF in June 2022 after a 32-year career in the energy industry, has been appointed lead non-executive board member for DESNZ for a three-year term from the beginning of this month. During a 20-year career at EDF, he led the team that delivered Hinckley Point C into construction, acting as non-exec chairman of HPC Generation Company Ltd.