Manfred Schuckert
Vice President, Head of Regulatory & International Hydrogen Strategy, Daimler Truck AG
Manfred Schuckert is currently Vice President – Head of Regulatory Strategy, & International Hydrogen Strategy – Daimler Truck AG (ex Mercedes Benz), the largest truck manufacturer in the world. A pioneer in fuel-cell technology, he has been working on establishing a global hydrogen supply chain: from large scale production of green hydrogen in UAE over large infrastructure produced in Japan (recent memorandum of understanding with Kawasaki Heavy Industries, co-testified by European Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson and Ken Saito, Japanese Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry) to terminals and hydrogen fuel cell truck production in Europe (recently awarded a massive quater of a billion grant to build 100 fuel-cell trucks in Europe).
Since 2007 he has regularly been in exchange with the EU Commission and various other governments incl. the German government on the design of various regulations such as e.g. EU laws on CO2 regulation and criteria pollutants (EURO 7).
In 1998 he started his career at the University of Stuttgart, developing the Life Cycle Approach for the German and later the European Industry, founding the referring software system (GABI) which is today the leading LCA software.
Speaker Schedule
Saturday, February 1, 2025
at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (HKS)Europe's Energy Trifecta Ditte Juul Jørgensen | Ewa Krukowska | Manfred Schuckert
Moderated by Riad Meddeb
The Union under Strain Alberto Alemanno | Věra Jourová | Adrian Vazquez Lazara | Yascha Mounk
Moderated by Amaryllis Verhoeven