• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Peter Terwiesch

ABB Ltd

President, Process Automation, Member of the Group Executive Committee of ABB Ltd

Peter Terwiesch is President Process Automation and member of the Group Executive Committee of ABB since January 2015. He joined ABB in 1994 and, among other roles, was head of ABB’s Central Europe region from 2011 to 2014 and ABB’s Chief Technology Officer from 2005 to 2011. Since 2022, Peter Terwiesch serves on the Board of Directors of Hilti AG (Liechtenstein) and previously served on the Board of Directors of Metall Zug AG (Switzerland) 2010-2022. From 2006 to 2012, he served as a member of BP plc’s Technology Advisory Council. In 2013, he was nominated as Fellow by IFAC, the International Federation of Automatic Control. He studied electrical engineering in Karlsruhe (Germany) and Strasbourg (France), holds a PhD from ETH Zurich (Switzerland), and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School‘s General Manager Program (US). He was born in 1966 and is a Swiss and German citizen. 

Sessions With Peter Terwiesch

Monday, 18 March

  • 02:05pm - 02:45pm (CST) / 18/mar/2024 07:05 pm - 18/mar/2024 07:45 pm

    Speed and Scale: Unlocking a just, secure and sustainable future
    Innovation & Technology

    The energy transition needs to move fast to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, but it also needs to develop in a way that ensures energy security, expands energy access and promotes sustainability. That will require striking the right mix of technological development and deployment, policy support, financing and public acceptance. It will also unfold differently in different parts of the world. What polices can accelerate energy security, energy access and emission reductions? What will be the key technologies? Where can investment unlock rapid technological progress? How can governments and companies collaborate to build a just, secure and sustainable future?