Amory Lovins is Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) - an independent non-profit resource policy center in Snowmass, Colorado, USA. RMI advises firms and governments worldwide on advanced resource productivity and environmental issues.

Amory Lovins studied physics at Harvard University and the University of Oxford, and received an MA (by virtue of being a don) and nine honorary doctorates. Amory Lovins was named by Newsweek as “one of the Western world’s most influential energy thinkers”.

His work focuses on transforming the car, real estate, electricity, water, semiconductor and several other sectors of the economy toward advanced resource productivity.

He has received the MacArthur Fellowship, the Heinz and Lindbergh Awards, and World Technology Award. He is also the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award (“alternative Nobel Prize”) and the Delphi Prize, Onassis Foundation.

He also received the 1994 regional Award of Distinction from the American Institute of Architects, its highest award for non-architects, and the 2000 Happold Medal of the Construction Industry Council (UK).

His latest books are Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (1999) and Small is Profitable: the Hidden Economic Benefits of Making Electrical Resources the Right Size (2002).

Amory Lovins co-founded the Rocky Mountain Institute with Hunter Lovins in 1982. The institute's USD 6 million income is derived half from private-sector consultancy and half from gifts and grants.

[last updated 31-Jul-08]