John O'Brien (businessman)

John O'Brien is an English businessman and an expert advisor to governments, industry, financiers and the cleantech sector. Based in New York, O'Brien is a managing director in Deloitte's Climate & Sustainability practice.[1] In this role he leads the firm's Energy Transition and Decarbonisation work.

Education

O'Brien has engineering degrees from Oxford and Trinity College Dublin, plus an MBA from the University of Adelaide.[2]

Career

O'Brien previously led Deloitte's work on climate in Australia.[3] Before that, he was the managing director of Australian CleanTech, which acted as the Australian representative for the Global CleanTech Cluster Association. He was also a non-executive director of Novarise Ltd, an ASX listed company which recycles polypropylene waste in China.[4][5] O'Brien entered the Australian energy sector in the 1990s and worked for Origin Energy for nine years.[6] He had previously worked in the Middle East, the United Kingdom and Canada, where he held various roles in the oil and gas industries and engineering consultancy.[4] O'Brien lectured in leadership and entrepreneurship at the University of Adelaide and was a member of the Premier’s Climate Change Council in South Australia.[7] He has been a member of the board of several CleanTech companies involved in wind farm development, biosensors and plastic recycling. He has served on the board of Renewables SA and as a member of the Clean Technology Innovation Program Committee at Innovation Australia.

Works

O'Brien is the author and editor of the book Opportunities Beyond Carbon - Looking Forward to a Sustainable World, which was published in 2009 by Melbourne University Press.[8] He has since published two further books, Visions 2100: Stories from Your Future in 2015 and Stories from 2030: Disruption-Acceleration-Transformation in 2021,[9] on the topic of effectively communicating environmental challenges through positive storytelling. Since 2012, O'Brien has written frequently about the cleantech sector for the website, Renew Economy.[10]

References

  1. ^ https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/profiles/john-obrien.html
  2. ^ "Australian CleanTech". www.auscleantech.com.au. Archived from the original on 8 March 2023. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
  3. ^ "Deloitte bolsters renewable energy, clean-tech and innovative technologies capability with new partner | Deloitte Australia | Media release". Deloitte Australia. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  4. ^ a b "News: Cleantech Expert John O'Brien Speaks with ABN Newswire". HotCopper. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
  5. ^ "Novarise Renewable Resources International Ltd - Home". www.novarise.com.au. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
  6. ^ Poole, William. "ONE ON ONE JOHN O'BRIEN". AMT News. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
  7. ^ (DEWNR), Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. "Premier's Climate Change Council Membership - Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR)". www.environment.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 14 October 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ "Opportunities Beyond Carbon". www.mup.com.au. 6 March 2009. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
  9. ^ "Visions 2100, Stories from your future".
  10. ^ "John O'Brien". Renew Economy. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
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