Professor Ken Baldwin FTSE was the founding Director (2010-2020) of the Australian National University’s Energy Change Institute (now incorporated into the Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions), He was also the inaugural Director (201802921( of the ANU ECI Grand Challenge: Zero-Carbon Energy for the Asia-Pacific.
The main focus of his current work is to help drive the energy transition, particularly for Australia’s export future based on renewable energy. He has held the following energy-related appointments:
- Project Steering Committee, Australian Energy Technology Assessment (2011-2013)
- Board member, South East Region of Renewable Energy Excellence (SERREE, 2014-2019)
- Socio-Economic Modelling Advisory Committee, South Australian Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission (2015-2017)
- Chair, Energy Cluster, the Australia-Indonesia Centre (2015-2018)
- Founding Chair, Energy Research Institutes Council for Australia (ERICA, 2018-2019)
- Steering Committee, CSIRO Hydrogen Research, Development and Demonstration Report (2019)
- Australian Hydrogen Research Network (AHRN) Steering Committee (2020-2021)
- ACT Renewable Energy Investment Fund Grant Technical Assessment Panel (2022)
- Member, Australian Hydrogen Research Delegations to Germany (2022), France (2022) and India (2023)
- Member, Future Electricity Vietnam (FE-V) team, for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Partnerships for Infrastructure (P4I) program (2023-2024)
- Chair, Industry Advisory Board, ACT Government Renewable Energy Innovation Fund (2023-2025)
- Non-executive director, Board of the Australian Hydrogen Research Network (2023-present)
- Chair, Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) Steering Committee for the Australian Energy Transition Research Plan (2023-present, committee member 2019-2022)
Prof Baldwin also chaired the inaugural State-of-Energy-Research Conference (SoERC) at ANU in 2019, and the inaugural Australian Hydrogen Research Conference (AHRC) at ANU in 2023 – both of which he helped found.
Professor Baldwin is an inaugural 2012 ANU Public Policy Fellow, and in 2021 he was recognised by the ANU with the Chancellor’s award for Distinguished Contribution to the University. In 2004 he won the Australian Government Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Science, for his role in initiating and championing “Science meets Parliament”.
His research achievements have been recognized by the award of the 2007 W.H. Beattie Steele Medal, the highest honour of the Australian Optical Society. In 2010 he was awarded the Barry Inglis Medal by the National Measurement Institute, and in 2019 the Australian Institute of Physics conferred on Professor Baldwin the award for Outstanding Service to Physics.
Professor Baldwin is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (FTSE), the American Physical Society (FAPS), the Optical Society of America (FOSA), The Institute of Physics UK (FInstP), and the Australian Institute of Physics (FAIP), and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).
[October 2023]