John Travers is an international energy expert from Dublin. A chartered engineer and graduate of UCD, he began his career at Shell International. He worked on oil and gas fields in the Northern Netherlands and subsequently led work on commercialising novel technology in The Hague. He left Shell to do an MBA at Harvard and write his first book, Driving the Tiger, Irish Enterprise Spirit. He then joined McKinsey & Company, management consultants, to lead projects as diverse as energy, not-for-profit healthcare and satellite design in Europe, the US and Africa. The founding CEO of Alternative Energy Resources Limited (AER), he has grown the company successfully since 2006.