Prof. Dr. Bernhard Lorentz

Bernhard Lorentz joined Deloitte in February 2022 and in his global leadership role as Managing Partner and Global Climate & Infrastructure Leader he leads the topic of S&C in Global Consulting Services as well as the Deloitte Center for Sustainable Progress (DCSP). He is responsible for the bundled competencies on this vital topic and provides clients with comprehensive and globally integrated support in managing the transformation process.

Within Germany, Bernhard is in charge of Sustainability & Climate across all services and is the leader of the 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, digital society, migration/integration and international politics. As the founding managing director of the Hertie School, he established the first university for public policy in Germany.