Simon Buckingham is the Technical Leader for Sustainable Materials at Volvo Cars HQ in Sweden, responsible for technical strategy and long-term vision. He joined Volvo Cars in 2018 and was previously the Technical Expert for Metallic Materials.
His career began at Jaguar Land Rover in the UK, joining as a graduate and leaving 11 years later as one of the youngest Technical Experts ever appointed. Following several years living in the Okavango Delta, Botswana establishing an elephant conservation charity with his wife, he returned to engineering via Assystem (now Expleo) and was appointed Head of Business Unit and Chief of Producibility, working for Rolls-Royce Aerospace for 4 years in both the UK and Germany. Following that he spent 3 years as Senior Technology Officer at University of Warwick, UK (part of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult). He lives in Kungsbacka, Sweden with his wife and two children.
