Peter Newman North American Book Tour: West Palm Beach

Peter Newman is the Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University. He has written 16 books and over 300 papers. His books include The End of Automobile Dependence and Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence which was launched in the White House in 1999. Peter was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Virginia and was on the IPCC for their 5th Assessment Report. In 2014 he was awarded an Order of Australia for his contributions to urban design and sustainable transport. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Technological and Engineering Sciences Australia. Peter has worked in local government as an elected councilor, in state government as an advisor to three Premiers and in the Australian Government on the Board of Infrastructure Australia. In 2016, Australia Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull noted that Professor Newman was his “tutor on transportation policy.” More details here.