Dr. Rainer Hinrichs-Rahlwes

Rainer is a Vice-President of EREF (European Renewable Energies Federation), and also a Board Member of the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE). In close contact with the European Commission, the European Parliament and EU Member States as well as stakeholders across the energy sector, he is actively supporting and promoting the transformation towards a renewable energy-based system and enabling and accelerating policies. He is representing EREF i.a. in the Steering Committee of REN21, and as the focal point to IRENA (i.a. as a co-chair of the Coalition-for-Action’s “Towards 100% Renewable Energy” Working Group).

Rainer is a Vice-Chairman of the World Renewable Energy Network (WREN), a Member of the WREN Council and Advisory Board, and he is WREC/WREN’s Head of the Policy Committee.

Before joining the renewable energy sector, until 2005 he was a Director General and Deputy State Secretary in the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Protection and Nuclear Safety from 1998 to 2005, overseeing i.a. administration and finances, strategic planning and communication, and renewable energy and climate protection.