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107 Leendert Verhoef is sustainable energy innovator and currently Science and Innovation manager at The Green Village. He started his career with a Ph.D. degree in solar energy from Utrecht University and worked from 1990 to 1998 in R&D management in industry and government. In 1998 he founded a consulting company, which grew into New-Energy-Works. His main interest are technological innovation and large scale introduction of disruptive sustainable technologies. He has held numerous workshop and conference presentations and published books and papers on these topics. Examples are SunCities: world’s largest suburb fully develop- ed to optimize solar energy (ISBN 978-90-75365-96-2), and ‘Energy from the desert’, a plan to supply the worlds’ electric power from deserts covered with GW’s of solar panels (ISBN 978-184407-363-4). At The Green Village, Verhoef will focus on technological innovations in the car as power plant and other Future Labs, and stimulating and harnessing disruptive joint inno- vation between industry and academia and creating spin-off activities. Follow Leendert Verhoef at twitter @LeendertVerhoef or at www.presolve.wordpress.com.