Thought leader, entrepreneur and sustainability professional with 12+ years of business and strategy development, policy & regulatory analysis, leadership, project and stakeholder management experience focused on climate change, international development, carbon markets and green transformation of energy, heavy industry and minerals sectors.
Facilitate gender diversity and women empowerment.
Dr Gokce Mete is Senior Partnership Manager at Vattenfall, building and maintaining strategic partnerships with industrial players, such as chemicals, steel, refineries, industrial gases and transport to jointly tackle the challenges and opportunities of decarbonization, green hydrogen and the electrification of industrial processes.
Gokce is co-founder of the Women in Green Hydrogen Network, author of over 30 publications, and has over 10 years of business and strategy development, policy & regulatory analysis, leadership, project and stakeholder management experience focused on climate change, international development, carbon markets and green transformation of energy, heavy industry and minerals sectors.
Prior to joining Vattenfall, she led South Pole’s heavy industry transition and renewable hydrogen portfolio as Global Lead, designing and developing business models and project investment cases for renewable hydrogen.
Previously she was the Head of Secretariat of the UN Leadership Group for the Industry Transition hosted by the Stockholm Environment Institute which explores how policy, finance and business practices in hard-to-abate industry sectors such as steel, cement, heavy duty transport and chemicals can be aligned to achieve climate neutrality.
Recent moderating & roundtable experience
• World Hydrogen Summit, Rotterdam, May 2023
• World Hydrogen Leaders’ Summit, Rotterdam, October 2022
• Industry Transition Dialogue, Stockholm + 50, June 2022
• Green Hydrogen Global Assembly, Green Hydrogen Organisation, May 2022
• World Hydrogen Summit, Sustainable Energy Council, May 2022
• Targeting Net-Zero: Leveraging a Just Transformation of the Global Steel Sector, UNFCC – side
event at COP26, November 2021
• Leadership Group for Industry Transition Summit at COP26, November 2021
• Vienna Energy Forum 2021: Industry Integration, July 2021
• Hydrogen Transition Summit, Climate Action, February 2021
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• World Sustainable Development Summit, February 2021
• Towards sustainable manufacturing in India, International Energy Agency, January 2021
• World Hydrogen Fuels Summit, Amsterdam, March 2020
1. What does it take to achieve net zero? Opportunities and barriers in the steel, cement, agriculture, and oil and gas sectors, Aaron Maltais et al. Report by Stockholm Sustainable Finance Centre and SEI (2021)
2. Reaching Net-Zero Industry through Public-Private Partnerships, Gokce Mete et al. A joint study between Leadership Group for Industry Transition and the Green Technology Centre Korea (2021)
3. Fostering industry transition through green public procurement: A how to guide in the cement & steel sectors, A joint report by LeadIT and UNIDO, Ali Hasanbeigi, Astrid Nilsson, Gökce Mete, Germain Fontenit, Dinah Shi (2021)
4. Toward Climate-Neutral Heavy Industry: An Analysis of Industry Transition Roadmaps, Oliver W. Johnson ,Gökçe Mete, Felipe Sanchez, Zoha Shawoo and Sara Talebian, Applied Sciences (2021)
5. “Creating lead markets for green industrial products” Gokce Mete, and Oliver Johnson, Insights, Stockholm Environment Institute (2020)
6. “Governing New Technologies in the Energy Transition – The Hydrogen Strategy to the Rescue?” Gokce Mete and Leonie Reins, (2020) 14 (3), Carbon & Climate Law Review