Dr. Kirsten Westphal

H2 Global Stiftung

General Management

Dr. Kirsten Westphal is Member of the Management Board of the German Association of Energy and Water Industries BDEW. She was Executive Director at H2Global Stiftung and leading the independent Analysis & Research Division (2021-2023). Kirsten is a Member of the German 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.