Profile

Dr. Kirsten Westphal is Member of the General Executive Management Board of BDEW, the German Association of Energy and Water Industries. Prior to this position she was Director at H2Global Stiftung, leading the independent Analysis & Research Division. Kirsten is a Member of the National Hydrogen Council. Between 2008-2021, she worked at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP). She headed the project “Geopolitics of Energy Transformation – Hydrogen” funded by the Federal Foreign Office, where she serves as an external advisor now. She was a Member of the Expert Panel to the Global Commission on the Geopolitics of Energy Transformation in 2018-2019 and contributed to the Commission’s Report “A New World”, published in 2019. She has published widely on international energy relations and EU external energy relations.