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

Philipp Steinberg

Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action

Director General for Economic Stabilisation, Energy Security, Gas, Hydrogen Infrastructure

Philipp Steinberg has a central role in the German government in energy transformation, energy security and economic stabilization, especially in the construction of LNG and hydrogen infrastructure. He heads a staff of more than 150 people and central elements of his work are to tackle the energy crisis as the head of the (now closed) € 200 billion Economic Stabilisation Fund and to diversify Germany’s energy supply. That entails, among other things, to design support schemes in order to build a new energy infrastructure for liquid gas, hydrogen and renewable energy sources. Previously, he was Head of Sustainability and Director-General for General Economic Policy (tax, financial markets, economic aspects of labour and social security), antitrust and public procurement, economic forecasting and research and the economic policy orientation of the ministry. In this role Steinberg was responsible for the design and implementation of the € 40 billion support scheme for German coal-mining regions in order to compensate for the phasing out of lignite and hard coal mining by 2038 and for the design of a new regional support scheme. After receiving his International Baccalaureate from the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales, GB, he studied law (Licence/Staatsexamen/PhD), economic policy and taxation/business administration (EMBA) at the Universities of Berlin (Humboldt University), Paris (Panthéon-Assas) and Münster (Westfälische Wilhelms Universität).   Philipp Steinberg was born in the United States and is both a German and an American citizen.

 

Sessions With Philipp Steinberg

Wednesday, 20 March

  • 03:20pm - 04:00pm (CST) / 20/mar/2024 08:20 pm - 20/mar/2024 09:00 pm

    Re-powering Europe: Policy and markets
    Power/Clean Power

    The war in Ukraine and commitments to the global climate agenda have created a new energy reality in Europe. The EU has pursued a strategy that has drastically reduced its dependence on Russian gas while accelerating a transition to renewable energy. The energy mix across Europe has been reshuffled as a result and the policies in place have the potential to significantly alter industrialization across the Continent. How will Europe’s energy portfolio continue to evolve and what impact will it have on industrial activity? Can the Continent wean itself entirely off Russian gas? What is the future for gas, hydrogen and nuclear energy in Europe?