Simon Holmes à Court is founder of Climate 200, a group of more than 7,300 Australians working to help community-backed independent candidates contest Australian elections.

Simon began his career as a software engineer, then spent more than a decade in precision farm water management. Simon was a driving force behind Australia’s first community-owned wind farm, Hepburn Wind, near Daylesford in Central Victoria.

He is an energy analyst, clean technology investor, climate philanthropist, director of the Smart Energy Council and the Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network, senior advisor to the Climate and Energy College at Melbourne University, and writes regularly about the transformation of Australia’s energy sector.