Autor: Peter Wells

Paul Nieuwenhuis is co-Director of the Centre for Automotive Industry Research (CAIR) and the Electric Vehicle Centre of Excellence at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. CAIR studies economic and strategic aspects of the world motor industry. He was a founder member of the ESRC Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS). His main interests have been historic and environmental and publications have been in these areas, e.g. The Green Car Guide (1992), The Death of Motoring? (1997), The Automotive Industry and the Environment (2003), and the innovative Sustainable Automobility (2014) as well as articles and book chapters, while he contributed to the Beaulieu Encyclopaedia of the Automobile, which won a Cugnot Award from the Society of Automotive Historians. He has acted as an advisor to several car and truck companies, governments and international bodies and is regularly invited as a keynote speaker at business conferences. Peter Wells is a Professor of Business and Sustainability at Cardiff Business School and Co-Director of the Centre for Automotive Industry Research where his work has ranged across spatial industrial development, economics, organisational theory, industrial ecology, technological change, transitions theory, business models and sustainability — all through an applied focus on the global automotive industry. He teaches themes of transport, mobility and business sustainability on the MBA and MSc programmes, as well as to a wide range of companies and organisations. Professor Wells has over 550 publications reaching academia, industry, policymakers and stakeholders through traditional academic papers and books, industry practitioner journals and events, internet publications and, more recently, webinars. His latest books are: The automotive industry in an era of eco-austerity (Edward Elgar, 2010) and Business models for sustainability (Edward Elgar, 2013).