Lee Beck is HIF Global’s Senior Vice President for Global Policy and Commercial Strategy. As part of HIF Global’s commercial team, she works at the intersection of project, market, commercial, and policy realities helping to scale e-fuels as part of the climate solutions set.

Before Lee joined HIF, she served as CATF’s Senior Director in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, overseeing CATF’s climate strategy to advance a broad portfolio of solutions in these regions. She was also responsible for advancing CATF’s efforts on the global climate policy stage through leadings CATF’s presence at the COP and related international convenings. Having worked on climate and clean energy and lived in the U.S. and Europe, Lee is an expert on transatlantic partnerships and international affairs and is passionate about advancing and strengthening the transatlantic relationship to achieve climate goals. Lee frequently speaks at and moderates high-level events, including on and off-the-record CEO- and Ministerial-level dialogues, around the world. Her thought leadership has been featured in publications such as Bloomberg, The Washington Post, the Financial Times, and Tagesspiegel.

Passionate about overlooked solutions, Lee worked with a multiorganizational team to launch the globally-oriented Nuclear Scaling Initiative, focused on scaling nuclear energy in the US and Central and Eastern Europe. She is also expert in carbon management technologies, having worked on the technology at both the Global CCS Institute and CATF, leading a global team of experts. Under her leadership, CATF’s carbon capture team played an integral role in advancing cutting-edge carbon management policies globally. The team helped secure $12 billion in funding for carbon capture, removal, and storage in the U.S. Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, as well as make improvements to the 45Q tax credit in the Inflation Reduction Act. The team also put forward the vision for a European Strategy for Carbon Capture and Storage.

Passionate about advancing the climate ecosystem and facilitating high-value partnerships and multi-lateral agreements and initiatives, Lee advises a range of organizations, governments, and foundations globally on their strategies. She is currently, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center and serves on the Advisory Boards of Project Tempo and EPG Romania.

She also worked for the Vermont Energy Investment Cooperation, at Eni USA in their Washington DC International Relations Office, focusing on international affairs and government relations, and the EU Delegation to the U.S. Before focusing on the energy field, Lee was a journalist reporting for multiple outlets reporting from Germany, Italy, Tanzania and Hong Kong.

Lee has a Master of Arts in International Affairs & Economics with majors in Energy, Resources & Environment and Political Economy from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). A German citizen, and recently naturalized American, having lived in eight countries, she speaks German, French, and Italian.