• CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Christoph Berg

S&P Global

Global Team Leader Biofuels Analytics

Christoph Berg is Global Lead for Biofuels at S&P Global. He graduated in Economics from Heidelberg University in 1989 and afterwards was Research Fellow at Victoria University, Manchester, UK. In 1993 he was awarded a Ph.D. in Economics from the Technical University of Berlin. In 1994 he joined F.O. Licht where he became managing director in 2007. Between 2015 and 2022 he headed the soft commodities and renewable fuels at Agribusiness Intelligence. He is the editor-in-chief of newsletters and reports on ethanol and biofuels, molasses and feed ingredients. Dr Berg has initiated F.O. Licht's series of World Ethanol and Biofuel conferences in Europe, Brazil, Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Sessions With Christoph Berg

Monday, 9 March

  • 02:00pm - 02:50pm (CST) / -

    Next Generation Biofuels

    Downstream, Midstream & Chemicals

    Next-generation biofuels continue to be the holy grail of the renewables sector. Despite broad political support for producing transportation fuels and reducing GHG by using waste products, progress has been patchy, and today there is still no large-scale plant in operation. Recently, the outlook for the sector has improved as Asian companies join the well-established market players in Europe and the Americas. What is the current state of play in NextGen biofuels? What are the stumbling blocks to market maturity? What will drive growth in the future? Can NextGen’s life cycle and economics beat conventional biofuels’?

Tuesday, 10 March

Wednesday, 11 March