John O’Brien

John O’Brien is the founder of Australian CleanTech and Sino CleanTech, research and advisory firms that assist cleantech industry growth across Australia and Asia. John delivers programs on innovation systems, entrepreneurship and authentic leadership.  He publishes the annual Australian Cleantech Review and Cleantech Indices in both Australia and China. He also founded the Australian CleanTech Cluster and the Australian Technologies Competition.

 John has lectured in Leadership and Entrepreneurship at the University of Adelaide and is a member of the South Australian Premier’s Climate Change Council. He has held board positions of cleantech companies involved in wind farm development, biosensors, plastics recycling in China and low emission vehicles in the Philippines. Previous roles include being on the Board of Renewables SA and a member of Innovation Australia’s Clean Technology Innovation Program Committee.

 He has engineering degrees from Oxford and Trinity College Dublin and an MBA from Adelaide. John lives in Adelaide, Australia with his wife, Kate, and two tall teenage sons.

OTHER BOOKS BY JOHN O’BRIEN

Opportunities Beyond Carbon
Looking Forward to a Sustainable World

Opportunities Beyond Carbon presents climate change as potentially the ‘best crisis we ever had’. It maps the many opportunities for communities large and small, local and international, making the transition to a low carbon economy. John O’Brien has compiled essays by key politicians, investors, business people, activists and academics on how to make the most of the current predicament. This fresh, lucid and practical optimism for the future offers a foundation for an entirely new and proactive attitude to climate change.
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