• CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Stephan Meeder

CropEnergies AG

Chief Financial Officer

Stephan Meeder, Chief Financial Officer, CropEnergies AG, joined the Executive Board in this role in April 2015. At the beginning of this year, Dr. Meeder was appointed as successor to the Chief Executive Officer of CropEnergies. He will take up this position from mid-July 2020. He worked for ABB Structured Finance GmbH from 1996 to 2000. From 2000 to 2001, Dr. Meeder worked for KPMG in the Corporate Finance Department and from 2001 to 2006 at Robert Bosch GmbH in Corporate Finance and M&A. In November 2006, Dr. Meeder joined the Corporate Finance department of Südzucker AG. In May 2007, he was appointed Chief Financial Officer of the French sugar producer Saint Louis Sucre SA, Paris. Dr. Meeder holds degrees from the University of Mannheim and the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales, (ESSEC) as well as a doctorate from the University of Mannheim.


Sessions With Stephan Meeder

Tuesday, 10 March

  • 04:40pm - 05:25pm (CST) / -

    Plenary - Agriculture & Energy

    Along with fertilizer, crop protection chemicals, transportation, and packaging, biofuels are a major area of intersection between agriculture and energy. Over the past 15 years, biofuels production has increased globally and has become a major part of the energy profile of developed and developing countries. While energy security and farm income support were early pillars of biofuels policy, biofuels as a solution to developing renewable, sustainable, low-carbon sources of energy is a major theme in both commercial and policy organizations considering future biofuels development. What are the geographic differences in areas such as feedstocks and policy? How will technology play a role? What are the critical policy changes that could happen? What role will energy prices play?