Adam Bumpus

Adam has worked in climate change communications and innovation for nearly 20 years, helping organisations like the UN, World Bank, governments, and the private sector improve clean energy innovation and communications. 

Previously Adam led international research projects on clean energy innovation as a Senior Lecturer in Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne and held visiting scholars positions at Stanford and UC Berkeley. He has a doctorate from Oxford University in carbon finance and degrees in geography and ecology from the University of London and the University of East Anglia. Adam also co-founded and ran the communications media agency, Apidae, delivering international climate and energy strategic communications projects for the UN and World Bank in the Pacific Islands and SE Asia. This included running the Australian Government’s flagship Action Against Climate Change (A2C2) across Pacific nations and the world’s first-ever multinight Facebook live event broadcast directly from the Pacific into the UNFCCC COP plenary.

Adam is a co-founder at Redgrid and the Internet of Energy Network (IOEN), providing a web3.0 digital infrastructure that enables a seamless and interoperable transaction network to bring communities into the clean energy-sharing economy. He also consults for organisations developing new ways of achieving environmental, social and governance goals in the new collaborative economy.