John O'Brien (businessman)
John O'Brien is an English businessman and an expert advisor to Australian governments and the cleantech sector. He is a Partner with Deloitte Financial Advisory and leads the firm's Energy Transition and Decarbonisation work in Australia.[1] He was formerly the managing director of Australian CleanTech which acted as the Australian representative for the Global CleanTech Cluster Association. He was also a non-executive director of Novarise Ltd, an ASX listed company which recycles polypropylene waste in China.[2][3] O'Brien entered the Australian energy sector in the 1990s and worked for Origin Energy for nine years.[4] He had previously worked in the Middle East, the United Kingdom and Canada where he held various oil and gas industry and consulting engineering roles.[2] O'Brien lectured in leadership and entrepreneurship at the University of Adelaide and was a member of the Premier’s Climate Change Council in South Australia.[5] He has been a member of the board of several CleanTech companies involved in wind farm development, biosensors and plastic recycling. He has served on the board of and as a member of the Clean Technology Innovation Program Committee at . O'Brien has studied at Oxford, Trinity College in Dublin and the University of Adelaide from which he has received two engineering degrees and an MBA respectively.[6]
O'Brien is the author and editor of the book Opportunities Beyond Carbon - Looking Forward to a Sustainable World which was published in 2009 by Melbourne University Press.[7] In 2015, he published a second book, "Visions 2100: Stories from Your Future",[8] on the topic of effectively communicating environmental challenges. Since 2012, O'Brien has written frequently about the cleantech sector for the website, Renew Economy.[9]
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- ^ "Deloitte bolsters renewable energy, clean-tech and innovative technologies capability with new partner | Deloitte Australia | Media release". Deloitte Australia. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
- ^ a b "News: Cleantech Expert John O'Brien Speaks with ABN Newswire". HotCopper. Retrieved 2015-10-14.
- ^ "Novarise Renewable Resources International Ltd - Home". www.novarise.com.au. Retrieved 2015-10-14.
- ^ Poole, William. "ONE ON ONE JOHN O'BRIEN". AMT News. Retrieved 2015-10-14.
- ^ (DEWNR), Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. "Premier's Climate Change Council Membership - Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR)". www.environment.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 2015-10-14.
- ^ "Australian CleanTech". www.auscleantech.com.au. Retrieved 2015-10-14.
- ^ "Opportunities Beyond Carbon". www.mup.com.au. 6 March 2009. Retrieved 2015-10-14.
- ^ "Visions 2100, Stories from your future".
- ^ "John O'Brien". Renew Economy. Retrieved 2015-10-14.
- Living people
- 21st-century English businesspeople
- Alumni of the University of Oxford
- Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
- University of Adelaide alumni