Amory Lovins, a 1993 MacArthur Fellow and consultant physicist, has advised the energy and other industries  as well as the U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense for nearly three decades. He has published in 29 books and hundreds of papers.  His work in about 50 countries has been recognized by the "Alternative Nobel," Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and Mitchell Prizes, the Happold Medal, nine honorary doctorates, and the Heinz, Lindbergh, Time Hero for the Planet, and World Technology Awards.

Lovins' technical work focuses on transforming the car, real-estate, electricity, water, semiconductor, oil, chemical, and several other sectors of the economy toward advanced resource productivity. He advises industries and governments worldwide, and has briefed 18 heads of state. He  is cofounder and CEO of Rocky Mountain Institute ( www.rmi.org  )—a 22-yearold, ~50-person, independent, nonpartisan, entrepreneurial, market-oriented, nonprofit applied research center in Old Snowmass, Colorado. Much of its work is synthesized in Natural Capitalism (www.natcap.org). RMI spun off E SOURCE (www.esource.com) in 1992 and Hypercar, Inc. (www.hypercar.com), which Lovins chairs. His 29th book, Winning the Oil Endgame (www.oilendgame.com), was published in 2004.

Mr. Lovins is renowned for his wide-ranging intellect and unique problem-solving approach, which he has used to make major breakthroughs in fields ranging from automobiles to energy. His work has consistently focused on harnessing market forces to promote resource efficiency as a solution to a variety of social, economic, and environmental problems. The Wall Street Journal named Mr. Lovins one of 28 people world-wide "most likely to change the course of business in the '90s"; Newsweek has praised him as "one of the Western world's most influential energy thinkers"; and Car magazine ranked him the 22nd most powerful person in the global automotive industry.

His 1976 Foreign Affairs paper “Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken?”—widely credited with having redefined the energy problem in end-use/least-cost terms—suggested a level of year-2000 U.S. energy consumption that is within 2% of its actual value.

His national-security work includes devising the first logically consistent approach to nuclear nonproliferation (technical papers and two books, 1979–1983); performing for DoD the definitive unclassified study of domestic energy vulnerability and resilience (Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security, 1982, www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid533.php, co-developing a “new security triad” comprising conflict prevention, conflict resolution, and nonprovocative defense (summarized by H. Harvey & M. Shuman, Security Without War, 1990–93.)

An experimental physicist educated at Harvard and Oxford, he has received an Oxford MA. See the RMI site for more biographic information.