Chief Scientific Advisor, Cambridge Malaysian Education and Development Trust (CMEDT), Malaysian Commonwealth Studies Centre (MCSC)
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Research Interests
The ‘Smart Villages’ Initiative: The MCSC, CMEDT, the European Academies Science Advisory Council (www.easac.eu) and the Templeton World Charity Foundation (TWCF) are undertaking a study of sustainable energy for villages ‘off-grid’ in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Key Publications
- Heap Brian (2014) Preface Viewpoints Africa's future...can biosciences contribute? Banson:Cambridge
- Heap, Brian Smart Villages: New Thinking for Off-Grid Communities Worldwide Banson Cambridge/Smart Villages Initiative, 2015.
- Terry van Gevelt, John Holmes, Max Marcheselli, Tayyab Safdar, Michael Price, and Brian Heap. Energy for off-grid villages: the Smart Villages Initiative. In: Academy of Czech Republic, 2016 (in press)