I am Managing Director and joint owner of Future Smart Strategies - a professional services company based in Perth specialising in strategic and reputational advice to business on market opportunities, business sustainability and corporate social responsibility, government processes, and managing government and external relations and reputation. Part of that is understanding how quickly markets change, and how quickly innovations change the market.

I am also Chair and Partner in Blue by Design - Blue By Design is engaged in the R&D; manufacture and distribution of innovative products for power and energy management. Blue By Design also provides strategic consulting services on technology trends and market directions in the energy sector. Blue By Design will be delivering energy storage solutions early in 2023. Further details will be released once our field trials are complete.

I am an Adjunct Professor at the School of Earth and Environment, The University of Western Australia where I lecture from time to time on environmental change and climate change that includes examination of the science, the economics and opportunties of clean tech, the future impacts of global warming, the need for action, and politics of global warming and carbon.

I am also a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Energy and a member of the WA Branch Committee.

I am also a Member of the Advisory Board of the Curtin Institute for Biodiversity and Climate.

I am or have been a member of a broad range of policy groups including most recently as a Board Member of the Stirling City Centre Alliance.

From 2012-2014, I was a Board Member and Deputy Chair of the Sustainable Energy Association of Australia (SEA), the peak business body for the sustainable energy industries, one of the largest chambers of its kind in Australia. I was CEO between 2007 and 2012.

I was also a member of: the Ecological Society of Australia Council for 13 years including Vice President for four years, retiring from this position in 2003; Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism Energy Efficiency Skills Committee; the WA Government's High Level Stakeholder Group on Greenhouse; Deputy Chair of the WA Land Information System's (WALIS) Advisory Committee, and a member of several policy committees with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, including Deputy Chair of the CCIs Climate Change Committee.

With climate change now rightly recognised as an urgent and pressing issue that must be addressed with practical solutions, it is logical that sustainable energy will play an important role in delivering a raft of affordable and immediately accessible solutions to both reducing greenhouse emissions and providing alternative sources of energy for the world. As a professional presenter, I do a range of tailored presentations for professional and community audiences on environmental change and climate change, and on the science and economics of global warming (see here), but also on a range of other subjects - including conservation, natural resource management - another example is here.

I was recognised by Singapore-based ABC Carbon as one of the Top 100 Global Leaders in Sustainability in 2011, an honour renewed in 2012 and again in 2013.

If you'd like me to talk to your group feel free to contact me!

(Note I am not the actor Ray Wills who plays in Broadway, TV and movies).

And - before you read on, my new favourite proverb - After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box. (Italian proverb.)

Contact Details

• Email: rwills@futuresmart.com.au
• Linked in au.linkedin.com/in/raywills/ - the big news stories I tweeted.
• My @ProfRayWills Tweeted Times Newspaper
Tweets by @ProfRayWills

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Index

		(last updated)
	Introduction (The verbose way of getting to the links below!)	April, 2014
	Future Smart Strategies - strategic and reputational advice to business	August, 2014
	Adjunct Professor at the School of Earth and Environment, The University of Western Australia.	July, 2012
	Facebook page - well, just Facebook	It's Facebook
	Member of the Advisory Board of the Curtin Institute for Biodiversity and Climate	March, 2011
	CEO of the Sustainable Energy Association of Australia (SEA)	June, 2012
	Board Member of the Stirling City Centre Alliance	March, 2011
	WA Land Information System's (WALIS) Advisory Committee	December, 2006
	Manager of Sustainability Services with SMEC - the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation	November, 2007
	Senior Adviser, Industry Policy, with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia	July, 2006
	Research in the Committees Office at the Legislative Assembly, Parliament of Western Australia	July, 2004
	I worked in Kabul, Afghanistan, as a Researcher and Adviser (volunteer) with the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD)	January, 2004
	Research at the Botanic Gardens & Parks Authority, Kings Park	January, 2004
	Sail Training Association of Western Australia - on board the Leeuwin II	January, 2004
	Previous research at Conservation and Land Management (CALM)	May, 1997
	Earlier research at CALM	February, 1997
	Starting out...	June, 1997
	Seminars and Conferences and other Talks for community groups	February, 2008
	Publications	February, 2008
	Full Curriculum Vitae	October, 2011
	Ecological Society of Australia	January, 2004
	Plant Diseases in Ecosystems	September, 1996
	Twitter Archive	Febraury, 2014
	Really funny stuff	February, 2009

These pages were originally Built With BBEdit and Claris Home Page a decade and a half ago! I now maintain these web pages using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004. Actually - now it is Adobe Dreamweaver CS5. I must be old.

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