Dr. Kirsten Westphal is a senior analyst at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin. Dr. Westphal works on International Energy Relations and Global Energy Security and is a member of the German Hydrogen Council. She was a member of the Expert Panel to the Global Commission on the Geopolitics of Energy Transformation in 2018-2019, and contributed to the Commission’s Report “A New World,” published in 2019.