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Miriam Maes

Co-Chairman Energy Transition Forum; Chairman Supervisory Board, Port of Rotterdam, UK

Miriam Maes has worked 35 years for multinationals, including more than 20 years managing national and international P&L’s. After managing international food, foodservices and beverages businesses for Unilever, ICI and the Marmon Group, in 2002 she entered the energy sector, first with Texas Utilities as a member of their European Executive and subsequently with Electricité de France (EDF) in the UK, as COO of their non-regulated distribution networks’ business.


In 2007, Miriam became CEO of Foresee, an energy and climate change strategy consultancy. Between May 2010 and April 2012, she was Advisor to the UK Department for Energy and Climate Change. In 2012, Miriam became a Senior Fellow on the Climate and Energy Program of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), a Washington-based transatlantic think tank, and became Chairman of GMF’s Energy Transition Forum. In 2015, she took ownership of the Energy Transition Forum 2.0 and partnered with the United Nations Foundation. 


For many years she served as a Member of the Advisory Committee of Total Energies-Tikehau Investment Fund (“T2 Energy Transition Fund”), Pioneer Point Partners Investments and Lloyd's Register.  


Since 2024, Miriam is Member of the Advisory Council of DTEK, the power generation and distribution company of the Ukraine and is a Member of the International Advisory Board of Tikehau Capital at Group level, a €45 billion capital market company.  


Her current Non-Executive Directorships include: 

  • Eramet, a listed global mining company 
  • Assystem, an international Nuclear and Energy Engineering company 


Her former Non-Executive Directorships include:  

  • Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Port of Rotterdam 
  • Member of the Board of Urenco, a joint venture between the UK and Dutch governments and RWE and Eon, manufacturing enriched uranium and uranium for nuclear power utilities worldwide 
  • Chairman of the Board of Elia Group, the listed Belgian national and part German Transmission System Operator. 

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