Dr. Hartley is the leader of CSIRO’s Hydrogen Industry Mission. In this role, he is responsible for developing the strategy and partnerships for a major new national initiative which was launched in May 2021 which focusses on delivering RD&D to enable the scaleup of Australia’s domestic and export hydrogen industries. In 2018 he co-led the development of CSIRO’s National Hydrogen Roadmap, and worked with the Chief Scientist of Australia, Dr. Alan Finkel, on delivering the briefing paper ‘Hydrogen for Australia’s Future’ which was presented to the Council of Australian Government’s (COAG) Energy council. This laid the foundations for the development of Australia’s National Hydrogen Strategy, which was subsequently delivered and adopted by all of Australia’s federal state and territory governments in November 2019.