Bernhard Lorentz

Global Consulting Sustainability & Climate Strategy Leader at Deloitte

Speaker

Bernhard Lorentz joined Deloitte in February 2022 as the Managing Partner and Global Consulting Sustainability & Climate Leader. In this role, he oversees sustainability topics within Global Consulting and serves as the founding chair of the Deloitte Center for Sustainable Progress. His main responsibility is to provide clients with comprehensive and globally integrated support in managing the transformation towards net-zero.

Within Germany, Bernhard is in charge of Sustainability & Climate across all services as the leader of the newly founded entity, Deloitte Sustainability & Climate (DSC). He is widely recognized as a policy advisor, with a particular focus on global energy and decarbonization strategies. In his capacity, he acts as a liaison between government, industry, and academia, advising clients in various industries such as automotive, public sector, hard-to-abate industries, and finance. Additionally, Bernhard regularly teaches and publishes on climate policy issues.

Bernhard Lorentz serves on numerous boards of public, academic and philanthropic institutions. He co-founded the Climate Neutrality Foundation and was the president and CEO of Stiftung Mercator from 2008 until 2014, one of the largest German private foundations, where he showed how much influence strategic philanthropy can have on major political reform processes. During this time, he founded several of today’s leading think tanks in the fields of climate and energy (Agora Energiewende, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change), digital society (Stiftung Neue Verantwortung), migration/ integration (Expert Council on Integration/ Sachverständigenrat Integration) and international politics (MERICS). As the founding managing director of the Hertie School, he established the first university for public policy in Germany.