Biography

Professor David Elmes FEI is Professor of Practice at Warwick Business School.  David joined WBS in 2008 after more than 20 years working in the energy & management consulting industries with BP, Gemini Consulting, CapGemini and Schlumberger. David has been co-investigator in UKRI-funded LoT-NET programme on Low Temperature Heat Recovery and Distribution Network Technologies and championed heating and cooling in EnergyREV, the Energy Revolution Research Consortium that was part of the UK Government’s Prospering from the Energy Revolution programme from 2018-2023.  David was Co-Lead of the University of Warwick’s Global Research Priority - Energy between 2016-2019, received a Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence (WATE) from the University of Warwick in 2017 and was elected a Fellow of the Energy Institute in 2018.

Research Interests

David’s interests lie in how the structure of the energy industry around the world is changing, what new business models are achieving success and how management practices are evolving to meet the challenges of securely supplying affordable, sustainable energy and using it efficiently.  He has a focus on decarbonising heat in smart local energy systems