Dr. Felix Matthes
Felix Matthes, a graduate electrical engineer (Leipzig University of Technology) and holder of a doctorate in political science (Free University of Berlin), has worked in industry since 1991 in various positions at the Öko-Institut (Institute for Applied Ecology), serving as deputy managing director from 2002 to 2004 and as research coordinator for energy and climate policy since 2009. His research and consulting activities focus primarily on climate neutrality strategies, energy market design, the development and evaluation of policy mix concepts with particular emphasis on CO2 pricing, and technology-specific issues of systems analysis (infrastructure, coal, nuclear energy, hydrogen) in Germany, Europe, and internationally (especially in Asia and the USA).
He has been and continues to be a member of various advisory boards of companies and institutions, as well as political advisory bodies, including the Enquete Commission on Sustainable Energy Supply of the German Bundestag, the European Commission's Advisory Group on the Energy Roadmap 2050, the Commission on Growth, Structural Change and Employment (the so-called Coal Commission), the German-Japanese Energy Transition Council, the Steering Committee of the Science Platform Climate Protection, and the National Hydrogen Council. In 1993, he was a Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States in the USA, and in 2007 and 2008, he was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA.
Since May 2025, he has been the acting chairman of the National Hydrogen Council.
