Dr Timm Kehler is since the foundation chairman and CEO of DIE GAS- UND WASSERSTOFFWIRT-SCHAFT (The German Gas and Hydrogen Industry).
The industry association is committed to ensuring that the potential of gaseous energy sources and the existing gas infrastructure is utilised today and in the future and provides information about the opportunities and possibilities that natural gas and new gases such as hydrogen and biogas offer our society. The association is supported by leading companies in the energy industry and covers the entire value chain from production, transport and distribution to trading, sales and utilisation. Other industry associations, industrial companies and vehicle manufacturers support DIE GAS- UND WASSERSTOFFWIRTSCHAFT as partners.
From September 2020 until its dissolution at the end of 2023, Dr Kehler was President of NGVA Europe, the European Natural Gas and Biogas Vehicle Association. Dr Kehler has also been a member of the Board of Directors of Eurogas, the association of the European gas industry, since January 2023 and a member of the Advisory Board of NOW GmbH, the National Organisation Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology, since November 2023.
From 2009 to 2015, he was Managing Director of erdgas mobil GmbH. Prior to this, Dr Kehler worked for the BMW Group for over twelve years in management positions in the areas of design, brand and product strategy and marketing. His responsibilities there included Vice President Marketing Pre-Development and Innovation for the ‘BMW Clean Energy’ hydrogen initiative. In 2007, he was nominated as a ‘Young Global Leader’ by the World Economic Forum Davos. Dr Kehler studied mechanical engineering and industrial design in Berlin and received his doctorate from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at TU Berlin in 1995.