Hans Dieter Hermes
Executive Vice President Hydrogen & Clean Energies,
SEFE Securing Energy for Europe GmbH
• At SEFE, group wide responsibility for the Hydrogen & Clean Energies, paving the way for future affordable, available, sustainable and resilient clean energies
• Clean energy business: Solar, Wind, Hydrogen. Technology – Economics – People
• International experience: energy projects in more than 25 countries in Europe, Americas, Africa, and Asia
• Led the Steering Committee of a 25 GW Solar-Wind-to-Hydrogen Project
• Advisory Board Member of the MENA-Fuels Project for the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Germany, analysing Middle East and North Africa for the supply of green hydrogen based synthetic fuels up to the year 2050.
• Co-Author of the publication “How to make Green Hydrogen economic?” (Hermes, Witte et. al., Sep. 2020)
• 2021-2023: Vice President Hydrogen at Worley, a global engineering company, responsible for the accelerated growth of the low carbon hydrogen business.
• 2014-2021: Project Governance Officer at Vattenfall for renewable energy; steering investment decisions and project developments. Responsible for the policy and decision frame¬work for all renewable projects, wind, solar, hydrogen.
• 2011-2013: Head of Business Development, Biomass, Vattenfall
• 2007-2010: Head of the Vattenfall Carbon Fund, financing renewable energy projects for emissions reduction in Asia, East Europe, and Latin America.
• 2000-2007, Lahmeyer International GmbH: Head of Energy Economics, management. Financial turnaround of two energy & water companies, financed by World Bank.
• PhD in energy economics (Dr.-Ing.), MSc (Dipl.-Ing.) in mechanical engineering
• Business fluent in English and German, fluent in French and Spanish
Sessions
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Panel Discussion: Hydrogen and the Future of Energy Resilience20 Oct 2026Hydrogen Technology World Expo





