Mark Leybourne
Position/Department/Division/Institution/Organization
Senior Energy Specialist – Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), WorldBankCountry
USA (Washington, D.C.)
Career history
Mark is the co-lead of the World Bank Group’s Offshore Wind Development Program. He is partof the ESMAP (Energy Sector Management Program) team within the World Bank and he has
worked in the offshore renewable energy sector for the past 13 years. He is also part of the teamdelivering ESMAP’s Green Hydrogen Program. His previous role was at an international energy
and environmental consultancy, where he was leading engineering and environmental advisory
teams on the design and planning of offshore wind projects. He has extensive experience insupporting the development of new offshore wind markets, having worked with thegovernments of: China, India, Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, Jersey and Barbados, to help establish
supportive policies and undertake feasibility studies. Mark has a PhD in offshore renewableenergy and a degree in Aerospace Engineering, both from the University of Southampton, UK.
Awards/Publications
LEYBOURNE, M., BATTEN, W. M. J., BAHAJ, A. S., O'NIANS, J. & TRAYLOR, H. (2008). Preliminaryfindings from a laboratory scale model of a ducted wave energy converter. 10th World Renewable Energy
Congress, Glasgow, UK.
LEYBOURNE, M., BATTEN, W. M. J., BAHAJ, A. S., O'NIANS, J. & MINNS, N. (2009). A Parametric
Experimental Study of the 2D Performance of a Ducted Wave Energy Converter. 8th European Wave andTidal Energy Conference, Uppsala, Sweden.
LEYBOURNE, M., BATTEN, W. M. J., BAHAJ, A. S., MINNS, N. & O'NIANS, J. (2010). Experimental andComputational Modelling of the OWEL Wave Energy Converter. 3rd International Conference on OceanEnergy, Bilbao, Spain.
LEYBOURNE, M., BATTEN, W. M. J., BAHAJ, A. S., MINNS, N. & O'NIANS, J. (2011). Preliminary design of
the OWEL wave energy converter commercial demonstrator. World Renewable Energy Congress, Linköping,Sweden.

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the OWEL Wave Energy Converter Pre-Commercial Demonstrator. Renewable Energy. Available online 13
September 2012, ISSN 0960-1481, 10.1016/j.renene.2012.08.019.
BUSH, H., LEYBOURNE, M., HUSSEY, J. & MINNS, N. (2013). Environmental Considerations for theDevelopment of a Multi-Technology, Tidal Array Site in England. 10th European Wave and Tidal Energy
Conference, Aalborg, Denmark.
ROC, T., GREAVES, D., CONLEY, D.C. & LEYBOURNE, M. (2013). Optimising commercial-scale TEC arrays:
genetic algorithm, Fractal & Eco-mimicry. 10th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Aalborg,Denmark.
LEYBOURNE, M. (2013). Development and Evaluation of the Hydrodynamic Design of the OWEL Wave
Energy Converter. EngD. Thesis. University of Southampton, UK
LEYBOURNE, M. (2016). India Ventures into Offshore Wind. Energy Focus – Spring 2016, EIC pp128-131
YATES, C.M. & LEYBOURNE, M. (2016). Indian offshore wind: ambitions, opportunities and challenges.
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). Eng. Technol. Ref., pp. 1–11. DOI: 10.1049/etr.2016.0114
HUSSEY, J., MINNS, N., LEYBOURNE, M. & ABUNDO, M. (2016). Reduction in the Cost of Tidal Energy
Through the Exploitation of Lower Flow Resources. Proc. of the 3rd Asian Wave & Tidal Energy Conference(AWTEC 2016). pp 662-666
LEYBOURNE, M. & HUSSEY, J. (2016) A Review of India’s Developing Offshore Wind Market andOpportunities. Proc. of the 3rd Asian Wave & Tidal Energy Conference (AWTEC 2016). pp 677-680
BAWN, G., LEBOE, D., JEDDERE-FISHER, S., CONRON, R. & LEYBOURNE, M. (2016). Design of a Floating
Platform for Shallow Water Tidal Stream Energy Resources. Proc. of the 3rd Asian Wave & Tidal Energy
Conference (AWTEC 2016). pp 941-945
BAWN, G., LEBOE, D., JEDDERE-FISHER, S., CONRON, R. & LEYBOURNE, M. (2017). The Design Process
for a Floating Platform Operating in Shallow Water Tidal Flows with Vertical Axis Turbines. METS, USA
YATES, C. & LEYBOURNE, M. (2019). Financing Offshore Wind in Taiwan. Journal of National Development
Studies. Vol. 18 No. 2, pp125-152. DOI:10.6164/JNDS.201906_18(2).0003

Areas of expertise
Offshore wind, wave and tidal energy, energy project development, engineering, policy andstrategy.

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