Louis ARNOUX

Dr Louis Arnoux holds a Master of Engineering degree (ENSIA) and a doctorate (Rural Development, University of Paris I - Sorbonne, Paris, France). Louis has 42 years experience in rural and industrial development, R & D, market research and commercialisation of new technologies in Europe, the Americas and Australasia. One of the strengths of his career is the management of complex processes starting with a new idea and leading to disruptive technologies and the development of new industries, new market dynamics, new products and services through technology substitution processes.
Louis has worked closely with private sector and government organisations in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Asia in the energy, transport, water and waste treatment sectors and took part in a number of processes of restructuring, long-term planning and industrial development. As part of this work, he was involved in the promotion, management and evaluation of many innovations. In the 1980s he was Program Manager of the NZ Energy Research & Development Committee (NZERDC) and participated in the creation from scratch of the NZ industry of compressed natural gas for transport (CNG) in response to the second oil shock. Since 1990 he has participated in the development of a number of sustainable disruptive technologies in the fields of biomass, E&MRfW (energy and materials recovery from waste), transport, high bandwidth communications networks and power generation.
His main objective is to contribute to an accelerated, low cost, transition to the sustainable energy, transport and communications networked infrastructures that the world now urgently needs to solve the global challenges of Peak Oil, the rapid decline of net energy available from fossil fuels as well as closely related climate change and ecological issues.