Jeremy Leggett Biography

He is also a founding director of the world's first private equity investment fund for renewables, run by Bank Sarasin (New Energies Invest AG, 2000-present), convenor of the UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security (ITPOES, 2007-present), and Associate Fellow at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute (1997-present).

A regular advocate for renewables in the international media, including as a CNN Principal Voice, he has been described by the Observer as “Britain’s most respected green energy boss.”

He is author of The Carbon War (2000), an account of the climate negotiations in the 1990s; Half Gone (2005), an account of the interaction between peak oil and climate change; and The Solar Century (2009), a vision of solar in the cleantech revolution.

In a first career as a geologist, he researched the history of oceans, explored for oil, and worked on oil source rocks funded by BP and Shell among others (1978-89, while on the faculty at Imperial College). Increasingly worried by global warming, he left to become an environmental campaigner (1989-1996, with Greenpeace International), during which time he won the US Climate Institute’s Award for Advancing Understanding.

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