Michael Liebreich

Michael Liebreich is Chairman and CEO of Liebreich Associates, through which he provides advisory and speaking services.

He is Senior Contributor to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the world’s leading provider of research on clean energy and transport, which he founded in 2004. He led it up to its sale to Bloomberg in 2009 and beyond, acting as Chairman of the Advisory Board until 2017.

Michael serves on the UK Department of International Trade's Advisory Board on Overseas Investment in Infrastructure. He is Chairman of the Advisory Board of Ecovillages, a Swiss charity he founded to focus on sustainability of mountain communities and is Visiting Professor at Imperial College Energy Futures Lab. He also chairs smart mobility startup Zeelo and is a technology investor.

Between 2012 and 2018 Michael served as a Board Member of Transport for London. He was a member of the high-level Advisory Group for the UN Secretary General’s Sustainable Energy for All initiative and Founder of Finance for Resilience (FiRe). He was the Chairman for ten years of St. Mark’s Hospital Foundation, a charity supporting research in colorectal medicine. 

Michael is a three-time finalist in the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, and winner of Lifetime Achievement Award from the Renewable Energy Association and GreenBusiness.

Earlier in his career, Michael acted as Deputy Managing Director of Associated Press Television and Founding Director of Sports News Television and was UK Managing Director of Groupe Arnault’s technology investment arm. Before that, he was an associate and manager at McKinsey & Co.

Michael graduated in Engineering from the University of Cambridge with 1st class honours, winning the Ricardo Prize for Thermodynamics and Christ’s College Wyatt Prize. He has an MBA from Harvard, where he was a Harkness Fellow and Baker Scholar. He was a member of the British Olympic Ski Team in 1992.

To book Michael as a speaker, please contact jo@liebreichassociates.com.

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I've largely stopped posting each #HydrogenSoufflé because frankly it's repetitive, and seems slightly distasteful to dance on the graves of so many dreams, however silly those dreams were. 

But I'll make an exception for the odd iconic soufflé, and this is one. Aberdeen is flogging off its hydrogen bus fleet for scrap. 

Now call me churlish - but if I were an Aberdeen taxpayer, a Scottish taxpayer, a UK taxpayer (as I am, big-time) or an EU taxpayer, I would like to know how much money was wasted on this 100% predicable outcome, and which muppet politicians and civil servants were responsible.

#HydtogenAccountability
#HydrogenTruthAndReconciliation

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Speaker, analyst, advisor, investor in the future economy. Host of Cleaning Up, podcast on leadership in an age of climate change. Managing partner, Ecopragma Capital.

Today's #HydrogenSoufflé comes to you from Norway. In 2022 the Public Roads Administration awarded a 4.9bn NOK ($520 million) contract to a local shipbuilder for two #hydrogen ferries. National broadcaster NRK has found internal documents from Swedish provider Powercell showing their fuel cells may last less than 10% of the promised 7.5 years. Yikes.

Open article: Frykter teknologien i milliardprosjekt vil slutte å fungere by nrk.no

Frykter teknologien i milliardprosjekt vil slutte å fungere

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