Adam has worked in climate technology and energy for nearly 20 years, helping organizations like the UN, World Bank, governments, and the private sector improve clean energy investment and innovation. He loves to help clients with new innovative ways of solving their carbon, climate and communications problems and has a special interest in carbon offset mechanisms and value creation.
Previously Adam led international research projects on clean energy innovation as a Senior Lecturer in Business and Economics and in Science at the University of Melbourne and held visiting scholar’s positions at Stanford and UC Berkeley. He has a doctorate from Oxford University in carbon finance and degrees in geography and ecology from the University of London and the University of East Anglia. Adam is a co-founder of the Internet of Energy Network (IOEN), providing a web3.0 digital infrastructure that enables a seamless and interoperable transaction network to bring communities into the clean energy-sharing economy. Adam also previously co-founded and ran a communications media agency delivering international climate and energy strategic communications projects for the UN and World Bank in the Pacific Islands and SE Asia. This included running the Australian Government’s flagship Action Against Climate Change (A2C2) across Pacific nations and the world’s first-ever intercontinental Facebook live event broadcast directly from the Pacific into the UNFCCC COP plenary.
He loves to surf, ski, ride horses, and play drums with his two boy