Amory Lovins

Industry Advisor

Amory Lovins is an Industry Advisor to WovenEarth Ventures. He is co-founder (1982) and chairman emeritus of RMI, where he served as chief scientist from 2007–19 and now supports as a contractor and trustee. He has been an energy advisor to major firms and governments in 70+ countries for more than 50 years, is the author of 31 books and more than 700 papers, and is an integrative designer of superefficient buildings, factories, and vehicles.

He has received the Blue Planet, Volvo, Zayed, Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and Mitchell Prizes, the MacArthur and Ashoka Fellowships, the Happold, Benjamin Franklin, and Spencer Hutchens Medals, 12 honorary doctorates, and the Heinz, Lindbergh, Right Livelihood ("alternative Nobel"), National Design, and World Technology Awards. In 2016, the President of Germany awarded him the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse).

A Harvard and Oxford dropout and former Oxford don, he is an honorary US architect, Swedish engineering academician, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (UK). He has taught at ten universities, most recently the Naval Postgraduate School (Professor of Practice 2011–17) and Stanford University, where he is currently Adjunct Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a Scholar of the Precourt Institute for Energy. He served in 2011–18 on the National Petroleum Council and has advised the US Departments of Energy and Defense.

Time has named him one of the world's 100 most influential people, and Foreign Policy named him one of the 100 top global thinkers. His recent efforts include supporting RMI's collaborative synthesis, for China's National Development and Reform Commission, of an efficiency-and-renewables trajectory that informed China's 13th Five-Year Plan, and helping the Government of India design transformational mobility.