Mr Michael Liebreich is the Head of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the leading provider of information and research to senior investors, executives and policymakers in clean energy and the carbon markets. Bloomberg New Energy Finance has over 140 staff working out of 11 offices around the world. He founded the company in 2004 and acted as Chairman and Chief Executive until its acquisition by Bloomberg at the end of 2009.

Currently a Member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on New Energy Architecture, he is also on the Selection Committee for the Zayed Future Energy Prize. Prior to founding New Energy Finance, he was an entrepreneur, venture capitalist (with Groupe Arnault), and executive, helping to build around 25 successful companies. In the 1990s, he acted as Deputy Managing Director of the Associated Press Television, Founding Director of the Sports News Television, and was non-executive director of Interactive Investor. He also spent five years at the London office of McKinsey & Company. He is a two-time finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards.

Mr Liebriech has an MA in engineering from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from Harvard where he was a Harkness Fellow and Baker Scholar. He was a member of the British Ski Team in the 1992 Albertville Olympic Games and is Chairman of the St Marks Hospital Foundation, a medical charity.