{{short description|British nuclear engineer|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{BLP sources|date=March 2022}} {{Use British English|date=December 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2017}} {{Infobox person |name=John Baxter |image= |caption= |birth_date={{birth year and age|1951}} |occupation=Group Engineering Director |employer=[[BP]] |alma_mater=[[Strathclyde University]] }} '''John Baxter''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CBE|FREng|FRSE}} (born 1951) is a British [[nuclear engineer]], and currently the Group Engineering Director at [[BP]].
==Education== Baxter was educated at [[Strathclyde University]], reading mechanical engineering. He studied for a postgraduate degree at the [[Royal Naval College, Greenwich]], then trained as a [[Royal Navy]] Submarine Officer.
==Career== Baxter was a Submarine Engineer Officer, and served on a Polaris nuclear submarine carrying out refitting. His subsequent career with the [[United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority]] included running the [[Dounreay]] and [[Windscale]] nuclear sites, and forming Hunting BRAE plc which ran the UK Atomic Weapon plants. In 1996 he was appointed to the UKAEA Board by the [[Secretary of State for Trade and Industry]].
Prior to BP he was the Group Engineering Director of the UK electricity utility [[Powergen]] plc.
Baxter is a [[Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering]] and a [[Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh]]. He is also a Fellow of a number of engineering institutions{{which|date=March 2022}} and was the President of both the [[Institution of Mechanical Engineers]] and [[The Welding Institute]]. He is the Master of the [[Worshipful Company of Engineers]] and a Court Assistant of the [[Worshipful Company of Tallow Chandlers]].
He has been awarded [[honorary doctorate]]s from [[Robert Gordon University]] in 2008 and [[Strathclyde University]] in 2011.
He advises the [[UK Ministry of Defence]] on oil industry matters and holds the rank of Colonel in the [[Engineer and Logistic Staff Corps]] of the [[Royal Engineers]].
From 2000 to 2013 he was a member of the Defence Nuclear Safety Committee advising the Secretary of State on the safety of the UK nuclear weapon and nuclear submarine programmes.
He is a Fellow of the [[Institution of Mechanical Engineers]] and the [[Institution of Engineering and Technology]] and the [[Royal Academy of Engineering]] and a Liveryman of the [[Worshipful Company of Engineers]].
He advises the MoD on the oil industry concerns.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://heritage.imeche.org/historyimeche/pastpresidents/president/JohnBaxter.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090825181044/http://heritage.imeche.org/historyimeche/pastpresidents/president/JohnBaxter.htm|archivedate=2009-08-25|url-status=dead|title= John Baxter|website= Institution of Mechanical Engineers' heritage website}}</ref>
Baxter was appointed [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in the [[2016 New Year Honours]] for services to engineering, education, and the energy sector.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=61450|supp=y|page=N8|date=30 December 2015}}</ref>
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