Jochen Hauff
Founder, Ambassador Agrivoltaics, Think Resiliency & Global Solar Council
Jochen Hauff is Founder of Think Resiliency, an advisory in the field of climate resilience. He also serves as Ambassador for Agrivoltaics for the Global Solar Council to help realizing the global potential of agrivoltaics.
Jochen has extensive solar and renewable energy experience from his long-term tenures as Director of Corporate Strategy, Energy Policy & Sustainability for BayWa r.e. Group, and his repeat terms as Vice President of SolarPower Europe between 2016 - 2024.
Prior, he was Director Renewable Energy & Sustainability at the global management consultancy Kearney, advising energy clients globally.
His current focus is on climate resilience, particularly soil health, regenerative agriculture, and sustainable forestry, which he considers crucial for increasing resilience to climate change impacts on land, lives, and livelihoods.
His objective is to mobilize private investment in resiliency, and he sees agrivoltaics serving soil regeneration at the core of this.
Jochen acts as seed-investor in the Generation-Re and the resist.vc investment syndicates and he provides advice to regenerative farmers, start-up companies and associations in related fields.
An Economist and Environmental Scientist by education, he is a Senior Brandt Fellow at the University of Erfurt and faculty member of the Renewable Energy Management Program at St. Gallen University, where he enjoys sharing his insights and vision with students.
