Michael Liebreich

Chairman & CEO / Liebreich Associates

Michael Liebreich is Chairman and CEO of Liebreich Associates, through which he provides advisory services and speaks on clean energy and transportation, smart infrastructure, technology, climate finance and sustainable development.

Michael is the Founder and Senior Contributor to BloombergNEF, which he created in 2004 and ran until after it was sold to Bloomberg LLP in 2009. He is an Advisor to the UK Board of Trade and serves as advisor to Equinor (Norway’s national energy company), Sustainable Development Capital (Europe’s leading investor in energy efficiency), the UK’s Clean Growth Fund and Eavor Technologies (global leader in closed loop geothermal energy). He chairs smart bus startup, Zeelo.

Michael is a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London’s Energy Futures Lab. He serves on the advisory boards of the OECD Centre on Green Finance, Imperial College’s Masters programme in Climate Finance and Management, the Hawthorn Club (a network for senior women in energy), the Greenmap Association (an NGO focusing on the financing of renewable energy in the developing world) and Ignite Power (a provider of distributed solar power in Africa). He is the founder of Moving Mountains (a charity focused on the sustainability of mountain communities) and the Liebreich Foundation.

His previous roles have included serving on the board of Transport for London, as an advisor for Shell New Energies and on the High Level Group for Secretary Ban Ki Moon’s Sustainable Energy for All. He has been a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Councils on Sustainable Energy and the New Energy Architecture and served on the advisory board of the Clinton Global Initiative’s Energy and Climate Change Working Group. For over a decade, Michael was trustee and chair of St Mark’s Hospital Foundation, a bowel medicine charity. Prior to founding New Energy Finance, he helped build over 25 companies as a venture capitalist, entrepreneur and executive, and before that he worked for McKinsey and Company.

Michael 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. Michael has won several lifetime achievement awards and is a two-time finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards.

Michael skied for Great Britain at the 1992 Albertville Olympics.