Alan Finkel
Chair, Corporate Advisor and Author
Stile Education
Dr Alan Finkel AC is a neuroscientist, engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist. Career highlights include 23 years running US company Axon Instruments and 8 years as Chancellor of Monash University. Alan was Australia’s Chief Scientist from 2016 to 2020, during which time he led the National Electricity Market Review, the development of the National Hydrogen Strategy and the panel that advised the Australian Government on the Low Emissions Technology Roadmap. As Special Adviser to the Australian Government on Low Emissions Technologies in 2021 and 2022, he brokered bilateral low emissions technology partnerships between Australia and each of seven key countries and chaired the Australian Government-hosted Sydney Energy Forum. He is currently Chair of Stile Education and a corporate adviser on climate change technologies. His upcoming book, Powering Up: unleashing the clean energy supply chain, is due to be published in June.
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Powering Up - Conversations & Book Signing with former Australian Chief Scientist Alan Finkel
The clean energy transition is humanity’s biggest ever economic challenge. In his book Powering Up, former Australian chief scientist Alan Finkel shares his insights for leading the way in the global transition to clean energy.
Powering Up – Australia opportunity to become a green energy global leader
The clean energy transition is humanity’s biggest ever economic challenge. Join former Australian chief scientist, Dr Alan Finkel, as he discusses his new book, Powering Up, which shows how to remove the barriers that prevent nations transforming from petrostate to electrostate. Dr Finkel considers the entire supply chain, from raw materials through power infrastructure, the workforce, transportation and household customers. He reveals the outlines of a new geo-economic order and explains in persuasive, practical terms how we can get there. If governments, investors, industry and consumers get this right over the next three decades, history will judge us as the generation who ushered in the Electric Age and helped to save the planet. The world will be transformed – with Australia, if we seize the opportunity, as a global leader.