Volker Beckers, CBE FEI

Volker Beckers is the Chairman of the Green Group (Partners) an end to end recruitment solution for the green economy, comprising Green Executives and the Green Recruitment Company. 

After graduating from Cologne University in Economics & Business Administration, Volker started his career working in various tech companies, then spent more than 25 years as an international leader within the energy industry, most notably as Group CFO and then Group CEO for RWE/npower for over 10 years to 2012. 

Volker now works for a portfolio of private companies of different sizes as non-Executive Director/Chair, as well as working on the board with government bodies such as the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) Board, and as a guest lecturer in academia such as for Imperial College London. 

He sits as Chair of the Advisory Board with Erasmus Centre for Future Energy Business (ECFEB), a specialist research center at Rotterdam School of Management and was appointed Chairman of the Advisory Group of ewi – the Energy Institute of the University of Cologne in 2019.