Bio

Dr. Roland Roesch is Acting Director of the Innovation and Technology Center of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and Professor for Energy Economics at the University of Darmstadt (currently suspended). Before Roland became in October 2010 a Professor he worked for 15 years in the Oil&Gas and Utilities Industry for Shell and E.ON in his last position as General Manager Power at Shell and for E.ON as Head of Division, Project Leader, Project Executive and Technical Project Developer. Before he joined E.ON he worked as Energy Market Consultant for Lahmeyer International and as researcher for renewable energies and CO2 mitigation. Roland has solid business experience in energy market related strategies, M&A including senior deal lead and integration management, energy project development and project financing. He currently leads IRENA Renewable Energy Project Development Navigator initiative known as IRENA Project Navigator, IRENAs Innovation activities and the grids & storage activities including the grid Integration of renewable energies on islands. Roland has a high proficiency in delivering applied energy solutions in difficult work environments. There are no solutions in life, there are forces in motion. If you generate these forces, the solutions will follow. Antoine de Saint-Exupery