Michael Liebreich is Chairman and Chief Executive of New Energy Finance, the leading independent provider of information and research to investors in clean energy and the carbon markets.

Michael serves as a Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Alternative Energies, Advisory Board Member for the Energy and Climate Change working group of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) and Steering Group Member for a number of IEA RETD projects. Michael is a member of the Energy Leadership Forum of E+Co and an Advisory Board Member of the Wilderhill New Energy Global Innovation Index. He is on the Selection Committee for the 2009 Zayed Future Energy Prize and for the annual Euromoney and Ernst & Young Global Renewable Energy Awards. Prior to founding New Energy Finance in 2004 Michael helped to build over 25 companies as a venture capitalist, entrepreneur and executive.

Michael earned his Masters in Engineering from Cambridge, winning the Ricardo Prize for Thermodynamics, and has an MBA from Harvard. From 1986 to 1993 he was a member of the British Ski Team, competing in the World Cup and the 1992 Albertville Olympic Games. He is Chairman of the St Marks Hospital Foundation, a medical charity.