Biography
Kathrin Gutmann is Campaign Director of Beyond Fossil Fuels, an extension of the Europe Beyond Coal (EBC) campaign that she has led since 2017. She built the Beyond Coal campaign while serving as coal policy coordinator for the Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe. With over 20 years of experience in climate and energy policy and advocacy, international network coordination, and campaigning, Kathrin has been a formidable force in the environmental movement.
Her previous roles include Head of Policy and Advocacy with WWF International’s Climate Program, as well as various positions with Climate Analytics, the European Climate Foundation, the German Environment Ministry, the Green Party in the German Bundestag, and Greenpeace International. Additionally, Kathrin has volunteered with the German youth environment organization BUNDjugend and serves on the board of Reclaim Finance. She holds a master’s degree in political science from the Freie Universität Berlin.
She is driven by a vision of what Europe—and the world—could be: a place where people live in harmony with one another and with nature, with fairness, hope, and peace.
Breakthrough Program
Kathrin Gutmann was selected for the Climate Breakthrough Award program in 2021.
Now that coal is essentially a thing of the past in Europe, in part due to the work of EBC, there is an immense opportunity to continue the continent’s renewable energy momentum. Using critical learnings from EBC, Kathrin wants to build an even bigger, sharper campaign to accelerate the transition of Europe’s power sector entirely to renewables by 2035.
Powered by a vast coalition of NGOs, this new campaign utilizes multiple approaches like legal, advocacy, grassroots mobilization and other innovative tactics. It’s called Beyond Fossil Fuels.
