c.hargroves@gmail.com

After graduating from the University of Adelaide in 2000 and spending two years as a practicing civil/structural design engineer Charlie co-founded ‘The Natural Edge Project’ (TNEP) an internationally recognised Sustainability Think-Tank in partnership with Curtin University Adelaide University QUT ANU and Griffith University. Charlie has led the TNEP team including Cheryl Desha Peter Stasinopoulos and Michael Smith to deliver five international books on sustainable development (currently selling over 85000 copies in 4 languages). The first book won the Australian Banksia Award for Environmental Leadership Education and Training in 2005 and the two released in 2010 were ranked among the ‘Top 40 Sustainability Books’ in the world that year by the Cambridge Sustainability Leaders Program (with ‘Cents and Sustainability’ ranked 5th and ‘Factor 5’ ranked 12th). Charlie is a Senior Research Fellow at the Curtin University Sustainability Policy (CUSP) Institute working with Professor Peter Newman and is the Sustainable Development Fellow at the University of Adelaide. Charlie works on a series of national and international projects with the TNEP and CUSP teams on sustainability across technology policy capacity building and behavior change while completing his PhD part time. Charlie lives in Adelaide and he and his wife Stacey have two children Grace and Tyson.