Dr Hugh Saddler

 Managing Director

Dr Saddler has a degree in science from Adelaide University and a PhD from Cambridge University. He is the author of a book on Australian energy policy, 'Energy in Australia' and over 50 scientific papers, monographs and articles on energy technology and environmental policy, and is recognised as one of Australia's leading experts in this field. He is currently a member of the Experts Group on Emissions Trading, appointed by the Australian Greenhouse Office, of the ABS Environmental Statistics Advisory Group, and of the ACT Environment Advisory Committee. In 1998 he was appointed an Adjunct Professor at Murdoch University. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Energy and a member of the International Association for Energy Economics. Between 1991 and 1995 he was a member of the Board of the ACT Electricity and Water Authority. In 1995 he was a member of the Expert Selection Panel for the 1995 Special Round of the Cooperative Research Centres Program (renewable energy technologies).

The bulk of his consulting work over the last few years has been in analysing and developing policy for governments, (especially the Commonwealth Government,) on greenhouse gas emissions and renewable energy, developing workbooks, for example for the Electricity Supply business, and work of a more technical nature such as the compilation of the National Greenhouse Gas inventory for energy related emissions. Throughout 2003-04, Dr Saddler has been engaged in the preparation of 'A Clean Energy Future for Australia', a major back-casting scenario study of demand, supply and greenhouse gas emissions from the stationary energy sector in 2040, for the World Wide Fund For Nature and a consortium of industry associations, published in March 2004.

Before founding the company in 1982, he held research positions at Sydney University and the Australian National University, and was seconded to the Commonwealth public service for two years. He also spent some years in the early 1970s working in London and Rotterdam with a leading British firm of economic and management consultants. His first work on energy policy was in the UK, in 1973, at the time of the first oil shock, and this has been his main professional interest since.