Jeremy Leggett is chief executive of solarcentury, the UK’s largest independent solar electric solutions company, one of the UK’s fastest growing tech companies, and winner of the FT-Treasury Inner City 100 Greenest Company award. After a D.Phil in earth sciences at Oxford, Jeremy began his career at Imperial College consulting for the oil industry and researching earth history. He won two major international awards for his research on the history of oceans. His work on oil source rocks was funded by BP and Shell.
In a second career as an environmental campaigner for Greenpeace International, he won the US Climate Institute’s Award for Advancing Understanding, at which time the Washington Post described him as “one of the half-dozen experts most responsible for putting climate change on the international agenda.” In his third career, as a social entrepreneur, he is in addition to his solarcentury role a director of the world’s first private equity fund for renewable energy, Bank Sarasin’s New Energies Invest AG, and a member of the UK Government’s Renewables Advisory Board. His critically-acclaimed account of the first ten years of global warming, The Carbon War, was published by Penguin in 1999. His account of peak oil and its conflation with global warming was published in November as The Empty Tank in the US (Random House) and Half Gone in the rest of the world (Portobello Books).
The Financial Times has described Leggett as having “done more to change attitudes towards the (solar) resource than almost any other individual,” and Time magazine – confused among other things by an absence of grey hair – has profiled him as “one of the next generation of young leaders.”
Jeremy Leggett is chief executive of solarcentury, the UK’s largest independent solar electric solutions company, one of the UK’s fastest growing tech companies, and winner of the FT-Treasury Inner City 100 Greenest Company award. After a D.Phil in earth sciences at Oxford, Jeremy began his career at Imperial College consulting for the oil industry and researching earth history. He won two major international awards for his research on the history of oceans. His work on oil source rocks was funded by BP and Shell.
Jeremy Leggett 2007
In a second career as an environmental campaigner for Greenpeace International, he won the US Climate Institute’s Award for Advancing Understanding, at which time the Washington Post described him as “one of the half-dozen experts most responsible for putting climate change on the international agenda.” In his third career, as a social entrepreneur, he is in addition to his solarcentury role a director of the world’s first private equity fund for renewable energy, Bank Sarasin’s New Energies Invest AG, and a member of the UK Government’s Renewables Advisory Board. His critically-acclaimed account of the first ten years of global warming, The Carbon War, was published by Penguin in 1999. His account of peak oil and its conflation with global warming was published in November as The Empty Tank in the US (Random House) and Half Gone in the rest of the world (Portobello Books).
The Financial Times has described Leggett as having “done more to change attitudes towards the (solar) resource than almost any other individual,” and Time magazine – confused among other things by an absence of grey hair – has profiled him as “one of the next generation of young leaders.”
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