Michael Liebreich
Chairman & CEO, Liebreich Associates

NationalityBritishCareer History
Michael founded New Energy Finance in 2004 and was Chairman and CEO until the sale toBloomberg LP in 2009. He remained CEO of Bloomberg New Energy Finance until 2014, acting asChairman of the Advisory Board until 2017. Between 2012 and 2018 Michael was a member of theboard of Transport for London, sitting on the Finance Committee and chairing the Safety,
Sustainability and HR Panel. He was rotated off in 2018 after speaking out about the organisation’ssafety culture.
Prior to founding New Energy Finance in 2004, Michael helped build over 25 companies as aventure capitalist, entrepreneur and executive. From 1995 to 1998 he was Deputy Managing Directorof Associated Press Television and Founding Director of Sports News Television. He acted as NonExecutive Director of Interactive Investor and was UK Managing Director of Groupe Arnault’sventure capital arm.
Between 1990 and 1995 Michael was an associate and manager in the London office of McKinsey &Co.
Between 2008 and 2017 Michael served on the high-level advisory group for the UN Secretary
General’s Sustainable Energy for All initiative, which steered through the adoption of SDG7 onenergy. In 2019, Michael was a member of the IEA’s Global Commission for Urgent Action on
Energy Efficiency. He has served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Councils on
Sustainable Energy and the New Energy Architecture and been a member of the selection panel for
the WEF Technology Pioneers and the advisory board of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week. He has
also served on advisory boards for the Clinton Global Initiative Energy and Climate Change
Working Group as well as Business for Britain.
Michael has been on the advisory board for the OECD Centre on Green Finance and a member ofthe selection committee for the Bloomberg New Energy Pioneers (a programme he created in 2008

and chaired until 2014). He was invited to become a member of the High-Level Observer Group for
the Hydrogen Council but resigned immediately he saw its first draft report. He was the founding
chairman of Finance for Resilience (FiRE), an accelerator of climate finance solutions.

Awards / Publications
Michael earned his masters in Engineering at Cambridge University in 1984, winning first-classhonours, the University’s Ricardo Prize for Thermodynamics and the Christ’s College Wyatt Prizefor Engineering. He has an MBA from Harvard, where he was a Harkness Fellow and won a Baker
Scholarship. He is a Visiting Professor at Imperial College’s Energy Futures Lab and sits on theadvisory board of the college’s Centre for Climate Finance and Investment (CCFI).
Michael is a two-time finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards and has won
lifetime achievement awards from BusinessGreen and the UK Renewable Energy Association. In
November 2022, Michael was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Energy Institute.

Areas of expertise
Michael Liebreich is chairman and CEO of Liebreich Associates and co-managing partner ofEcoPragma Capital. He is a member of the UK’s Taskforce on Energy Efficiency, chairing thesubgroup on industry, a member of the UK Board of Trade, an honorary fellow of the Energy
Institute and visiting professor at Imperial College London. He is a former advisor to the UN on
Sustainable Energy for All, member of the board of Transport for London and founder ofBloombergNEF. Michael undertakes speaking and writing engagements through Liebreich
Associates. He is a sought-after keynote speaker and panellist on all matters relating to the net zerotransition. He has addressed many major energy and other conferences, the UN General Assemblyand governmental panels and committees around the world. He still contributes a quarterly column
as Senior Contributor to BloombergNEF.
In July 2020, Michael started a podcast and YouTube channel called Cleaning Up, where he hosts indepth conversations with leaders and experts in climate change and its potential solutions. Guests
have included Tony Blair, Christiana Figueres, Ernie Moniz, Alex Honnold, Bill McKibben, Fatih
Birol, Yanis Varoufakis, Mariana Mazzucato, Tony Abbott, Lord Browne, Lord Stern, Baroness
Worthington, Lord Turner, Dan Yergin, Mark Carney, Tom Steyer, Elizabeth Wathuti, JohanRockström and many more.
In 2021, together with fellow Cambridge Engineer and Harvard Business School alumnus Henry

Lawson, Michael set up EcoPragma Capital. This is a specialist provider of advisory services tocompanies and investors committed to the net zero transition. Through EcoPragma Capital Michaelprovides strategic advice and supports fund-raisings and capital investments. Future plans include
raising a fund to invest in companies experiencing or on the cusp of explosive growth.