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Jeremy Leggett
Dr Jeremy Leggett is a British green-energy entrepreneur, author and activist who is founding director of Solarcentury (1997–present), the UK’s largest independent solar electric company; founder and Chairman of SolarAid (2006–present), a charity set up with 5% of Solarcentury’s annual profits; and Chairman of CarbonTracker, a financial-sector think-tank warning of carbon-fuel asset-stranding risk to the capital markets, colloquially known as the carbon bubble (2011–present). He is the author of four books on energy, climate change, and oil depletion. Leggett advocates renewable energy and a rapid managed withdrawal from fossil fuels in the media and is a contributor to the Financial Times and the Guardian. Winner of numerous awards, he has been described in the Observer as “Britain’s most respected green energy boss."〔("Why greed is good after all" ), The Guardian.〕
== Career ==
In a first career, Leggett was an award-winning earth scientist on the faculty of the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College. He researched, among other things, shale deposits, funded by BP, Royal Dutch Shell and other energy companies (1978-1989).
Leggett holds a variety of current roles in the renewable energy and clean energy sector. In 1998, Leggett founded Solarcentury, the UK’s largest independent solar electric company, where he served as CEO until 2006, Chairman until 2014, and is now a board director.〔("Our People" ) - Solar Century〕 Solarcentury is an international, profitable venture capital-backed downstream developer, EPC, O&M, owner of solar roofs and solar farms, and a BIPV solar product-developer. Leggett set up the charity SolarAid in 2006, which helps African communities access solar power with 5% of the proceeds of Solarcentury’s annual profit.〔("Our Founding Partner" ) - SolarAid〕 SolarAid owns a retail brand ''SunnyMoney'' that is Africa’s top-seller of solar lighting, having sold well over a million solar lights, all profits recycled to the cause of eradicating the kerosene lantern from Africa. He also serves as a Chairman of the Carbon Tracker Initiative,〔(About Us - Carbon Tracker ),〕 a think tank which was set up to align the capital markets with international climate policymaking.
Other roles include convening the UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security,〔("The release of the Industry Taskforce Report on Peak Oil and Energy Security" )〕 a pan-industry group warning of a systemic oil-depletion risk to economies (2007-2013), which evolved into the Transatlantic Energy Security Dialogue (2013–present), co-convened with Lt Col. Daniel Davis (US Army). Jeremy also served on the New Energy Architecture Global Agenda Council〔("New Energy Architecture Global Agenda Council" )〕 of the World Economic Forum (2012 – 2014), a group primarily working on “black swans” in energy markets. Between 2000 and 2014 he was non-executive director of New Energies Invest AG, a private equity fund investing in renewable energy (2000–14), and is a consultant on systemic risk to major corporations.
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