Nils Anders Røkke (born 10 April 1963) is a Norwegian scientist and business leader. He is the Executive Vice President Sustainability

SINTEF SINTEF (, "The Foundation for Industrial and Technical Research"), headquartered in Trondheim, Norway, is an independent research organization founded in 1950 that conducts contract research and development projects. SINTEF has 2000 employees fr ...

. He is as of May 2017 the Chairman of The European Energy Research Alliance. EERA is the public research pillar of the EU Strategic Energy Technology Plan(SET-Plan). The SET-Plan aims at accelerating the development and market uptake of key low carbon technologies. EERA brings together more than 170 research centres and universities, working together on 17 joint research programmes, they build on national research initiatives. Nils A. Røkke is a promoter of sustainable solutions in energy and mobility, especially in the Norwegian public debate and on the European research arena. His research interests are in energy and climate strategies, renewable energy, CCS technologies and policies, climate mitigation and the European energy research community. He has a Msc. in Mechanical Engineering from NTNU from 1986. He has a PhD in Thermal Energy and combustion from NTNU from 1994. He worked as Gas Turbine Design and Development Manager in Rolls-Royce Marine from 1998, before returning to SINTEF in 2002. He has been the coordinator of several large European CCS projects in FP6 and FP7, as well as NORDICCS, a CCS research project funded by the Nordic Top Level Research Initiative. He is the Chair of ECCSEL, the European CCS Lab infrastructure. He is the standing chairman and originator of the Trondheim CCS conferences (TCCS). From 2020. Røkke joined th
contributor network at Forbes
writing regular columns on the business of energy.

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Financial Times: Carbon capture schemes urged to be more ambitiousScientist: ‘I’m pretty sure we will need carbon removal technologies’Norwegian scientist: ‘No way’ of reaching climate neutrality without hydrogen’SINTEF's information on RøkkeInterview with Nils Røkke when The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) took the number one spot The Times ranking of universities producing the highest proportion of their research in collaboration with a single partner from industry – in this case SINTEF.Blogs from Nils Anders Røkke.Facebook public person profile.EURACTIV Opinion: Mission possible: Vision 2030!
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