Sebastian Gallehr
Managing director, shareholder: GALLEHR+PARTNER
Chief executive director: e5 European Business Council for Sustainable Energy
Financial auditor and science council member: European Climate Forumup

Sebastian Gallehr was born on January 30th, 1965 in Hamburg. After having passed the final exam he moved to Braunschweig in order to start his studies in energy- and processtechnology at the Technical University in Braunschweig, which he finalized in 1996 with an engineering diploma. In 1997 he got married and since then he and his wife enjoy raising together their two children.

Since 1995 Gallehr founded several private business companies and units in the sustainable energy sector. He gained business experience as manager and managing director of several SME and one corporate company in the sectors of carbon management, emissions trading, energy supply, energy efficiency, smart metering, renewable energies, energy management, energy infrastructures and risk management.

The company GALLEHR+PARTNER-Sustainable Risk Management was founded in April 2003 and is managed by Sebastian Gallehr as the main shareholder. Besides being the German market leader in carbon management services for some 100 industrial and power plants GALLEHR+PARTNER offers consulting and services for business development, IT implementation, risk management, energy management, renewable energies, and emissions trading to companies in the energy sector and carbon intensive industries.

Since March 2002 Sebastian Gallehr is managing the European Business Council for Sustainable Energy (e5) as CEO. e5, founded in 1996 is representing approx. 110 European enterprises in their policy and business requirements of a future capable energy economy on European and international level. In this function, Gallehr has been the chairman of the cross sectoral eco-innovations experts panel of the Europe INNOVA program and is financial auditor and member of the science council of the European Climate Forum. Sebastian Gallehr, Frankfurt/Main, Karben, August 2008.