Dr. Noé van Hulst, Vice-Chair of IPHE (International Partnership for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells in the Economy), Hydrogen Advisor to the IEA and Gasunie, and Senior Fellow at CIEP (Clingendael International Energy Program), also serves as Hydrogen Envoy at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy in the Netherlands. Previously, he was the Dutch Ambassador to the OECD from September 2013 to September 2018 and Chairman of the IEA Governing Board.
From 2003 to 2007, he worked at the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris as Director of Long-Term Cooperation and Policy Analysis. He then served as Secretary-General of the International Energy Forum (IEF) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from 2008 to 2011. In 2012-2013, he was Director of the Energy Academy Europe.
Before that, Dr. van Hulst worked at the Ministry of Economic Affairs starting in 1988, most recently as Director-General for Energy. He holds a PhD in economics from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.