Physicist Amory Lovins, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, has worked as and energy advisor to major firms and governments in sixty-five countries for over fourty years. He has authored a total of thirty-one books and six-hundred papers, and is an integrative designer of super efficient buildings, factories, and vehicles.

His books include Winning the Oil Endgame (2004) and Reinventing Fire (2011). His main recent efforts include supporting RMI’s collaborative synthesis, for China’s National Development and Reform Commission, of an ambitious efficiency-and-renewables trajectory to inform the 13th Five Year Plan, and exploring how to make integrative design the new normal, so investments in energy efficiency can yield expanding rather than diminishing returns.