Philipp Offenberg

Head of Government and Executive Affairs Office Brussels at Siemens Energy

Brussels Metropolitan Area

About

Since 2025: Head of Government and Executive Affairs Office Brussels at Siemens Energy 2020 - 2025: Director, Europe at Breakthrough Energy. Established in 2015 by Bill Gates and a coalition of private investors concerned about the impacts of accelerating climate change, Breakthrough Energy supports the innovations that will lead the world to net-zero emissions. 2016-2020: Adviser on energy and climate change at the European Political Strategy Centre (EPSC), the European Commission's in-house think tank, which operated under the direct authority of President Jean-Claude Juncker.

Experience

  • Head of Government and Executive Affairs Office Brussels at Siemens Energy
    Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Breakthrough Energy (4 yrs 2 mos)
    • Director, Europe
      Jan 2024 - Mar 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos

    • Senior Manager Europe
      Jan 2022 - Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    • Manager, Europe
      Feb 2021 - Feb 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Program Manager, Europe at Gates Ventures
    Jan 2020 - Feb 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • European Commission (4 yrs 1 mo)
    • Adviser at the European Political Strategy Centre (EPSC), European Commission
      Mar 2019 - Jan 2020 · 11 mos

      Adviser to the Presidency of the European Commission in the European Political Strategy Centre (EPSC), the in-house think tank of the European Commission, reporting directly under the authority of President Jean-Claude Juncker. I provide strategic advice on matters related to the policy priorities Energy Union and Climate Action, Clean Mobility, Circular Economy and Industrial Strategy.

    • Analyst in the European Political Strategy Centre (EPSC)
      Jan 2016 - Jan 2020 · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • Lecturer in the executive education programme "Energy Union Summer School" at College of Europe
    Jul 2016 - Jun 2019 · 3 yrs

    I have been giving an annual lecture on the German energy transition in the executive education programme ("Energy Union Summer School") of the College of Europe since 2016.