Mr. Michael Liebreich serves on a number of advisory boards, including the OECD Centre on Green Finance, Imperial College’s Masters programme in Climate Change, Management and Finance, etc. He is a former member of the high-level advisory group for the UN Secretary General’s Sustainable Energy for All initiative, and has served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Councils on Sustainable Energy and the New Energy Architecture.

Prior to founding New Energy Finance, Mr. Liebreich helped build over 25 companies as a venture capitalist, entrepreneur and executive, and before that he worked for McKinsey and Company.

Mr. Liebreich has an MA in Engineering from the University of Cambridge, where he won the Wyatt Prize for Engineering and the Ricardo Prize for Thermodynamics and an MBA from Harvard, where he was a Harkness Fellow and Baker Scholar. Mr. Michael Liebreich has won lifetime achievement awards from BusinessGreen and the UK Renewable Energy Association, and has been a two-time finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards.