Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Andreas Kaiser works at the crossroads of energy policy, international markets, and regulatory governance. As a Senior Government Counsellor at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, recently finishing his secondment at the European Commission (General-Directorate for Energy), the focus of Andreas lies on EU energy infrastructure, hydrogen market development, and energy security. His work centers on translating political objectives into implementable frameworks. Recent experience includes European infrastructure planning (focus on hydrogen), regulatory design, and cross-border coordination. Andreas support decision-making in complex, high-uncertainty environments - particularly where policy, markets, and system resilience converge. The background of Andreas combines energy economics, money laundering regulation, international cooperation, and crisis management. He has worked extensively on natural gas security, LNG markets, emergency preparedness, and the governance of infrastructure expansion. Earlier roles at GIZ (German Development Cooperation) involved building public-private cooperation models, facilitating investment projects, and supporting industrial development across sectors; during the Corona crisis with a particular focus on vaccine manufacturing in Africa. At the German Trade Chamber for Eastern Africa, on behalf of GIZ, and together with his team he supported the market penetration of mainly German companies in the field of environmental technologies in East Africa (renewable energy, water, waste management). Alongside my policy work, Andreas completed an LL.M. in International Business Law with a specialisation in financial regulation and anti-money laundering frameworks. Across assignments, his work centres on structuring complexity, bridging policy and implementation, and aligning stakeholders in high-uncertainty environments. This combination allows Andreas Kaiser to navigate complex systems where policy, markets, infrastructure, and regulation interact — particularly in environments defined by uncertainty, crisis dynamics, and institutional constraints.
EU Hydrogen Infrastructure: Development of assessment methods for projects of EU interest (PCIs/ PMIs in the Ten-Year Network Development Plan, TEN-E Regulation) / Allocation of PCI/ PMI status; legislative aspects / acceleration of approval procedures Regional Cooperation: Establishment, coordination, and facilitation of hydrogen regional groups for Baltic Sea / North Sea neighboring countries Study Management: Supervision of external contracts for infrastructure development and expansion Public Participation: Coordination of and advancing a network to strengthen public involvement in grid expansion, https://energy.ec.europa.eu/topics/infrastructure/public-acceptance-and-stakeholder-engagement_en Extensive involvement in the Speakers' Council of German Seconded National Experts as well as the international Council of SNEs, https://www.linkedin.com/company/clenad/
Fellowship on "American-German LNG trade now and beyond: Transatlantic bonding in the crossroads of changing patterns of international energy trade and increasing climate ambition" In a rapidly changing, complex, and interconnected world, it is becoming increasingly important to analyze tomorrow’s challenges today. Through the McCloy Fellowships on Global Trends, the ACG seeks to tackle overarching issues that affect communities around the world – particularly in Germany and the United States – in areas such as equity and social justice, urbanization, climate change and sustainability, technology and digitalization, public health as well as financial concerns such as inflation, trade, and global supply chains.
Establishing international cooperation for the connection of the German hydrogen core network with a focus on the Baltic Sea countries, Denmark, Switzerland; EU affairs - PCI/ PMI process/ TEN-E-Regulation
Crisis management and emergency preparedness natural gas, infrastructure, LNG trade; EU processes
Task Force Vaccine Manufacturing Germany
The Manfred Wörner Seminar offers young executives from Germany, the United States and other European countries a platform to examine German and European security policy and discuss US-German and US-European security interests. Started in 1982, the seminar is co-sponsored by the Armed Forces Office of the German Defense Ministry and the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF).