Speakers

Alexandra Stein joined the Net Zero Technology Centre earlier this year to focus on the organisation’s priority hydrogen and carbon capture projects across Scotland, the wider UK and internationally. She was latterly the Scottish Government’s European hydrogen envoy, leading Scotland’s international hydrogen engagement and partnership working with governments, clusters, major projects, ports and business across northern Europe. She is an advocate of Scotland’s and the UK’s renewable and clean hydrogen potential and supports a whole-systems approach to hydrogen development. Her main international focus is on Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium on the demand side, and Ireland, Norway and Denmark on the supply side, seeking to leverage maximum impact and maximise the value of our collective renewable sectors. Alexandra has prior experience across a broad range of senior government and private sector policy and operational roles, with a consistent focus on strategy, energy and business. As Director of the Scottish Government’s Office in Germany from 2018–2023, she prioritised green hydrogen as key to Scotland’s future economic success and engagement with Germany – building a net zero economy based on Scotland’s sizable renewable energy resources that will help safeguard energy security, enable industrial decarbonisation, build new business opportunities, and enable zero-emissions transport. Engaging extensively across the hydrogen sector, she established Scotland’s enduring hydrogen relationships with Germany at federal and state levels, as well as with the Netherlands and Ireland. She was also previously Head of Innovation and New Technologies for a mid-sized marine engineering company where she developed a Horizon Europe project to string-test propulsion systems for a hydrogen powered ferry.