Peter Durante is an applied thought leader, strategist and business developer in clean energy with over 24 years of experience across the global energy, transport, infrastructure and industrial sectors, working across diverse geographies, sectors and functions. In all of these roles, he has focused on innovation and impact (commercial, environmental and socioeconomic).

Prior to joining Awendio Solaris, Peter was the Global Head of Technology and Innovation at Macquarie Asset Management where he helped drive decarbonisation across the world’s largest private equity infrastructure portfolio and investments in energy transition solutions (including manufacturing). As the Head of Emerging Technology and Market Intelligence at Saudi Aramco Renewables, he helped established the Kingdom’s national renewable energy programme. As a Principal Consultant at Irbaris, he advised major industrials, investors and governments on a range of sustainability and renewable energy topics, and spent 10 years at Shell in a range of positions including downstream B2B, procurement, oil and emissions trading and strategy (including a year’s secondment to Air Canada in Montreal).

Peter currently serves on various advisory and non-executive boards in clean energy (renewables, hydrogen, nuclear, EVs) and is a guest lecturer on energy futures at the University of Oxford.

Peter has an Executive MBA from the University of Oxford, an MSc in Finance and Financial Law from SOAS (Univ. of London), an MA in International History from the University of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies, and a BA in History from Arizona State University.