Volker Beckers

Volker Beckers was appointed as Group Chief Executive Officer, RWE npower in January 2010.  Prior to this, from November 2003, he held the position of Group Chief Financial Officer, RWE npower.

Before joining RWE npower, he was Vice President Corporate Controlling and Development at RWE Net AG in Dortmund and from February 2003 was also responsible for Organisational Development. Before that, he held several senior positions at RWE Energie AG in different parts of the energy value chain. His last position before the merger with VEW Energie AG was Head of Controlling business unit grid in Essen.

After graduating from Cologne University with a master’s degree in business administration, he worked for Compunet Computer AG (later General Electric, Capital Services) as Head of the Training and Education Centre and then moved to the management consultancy part of the business as Division Manager responsible for Project Management Methods and IT Development Projects.

In addition to his role at RWE npower, Volker Beckers is Deputy Head of the Executive Commercial Management Committee at BDEW (German Association of Energy and Water Industries), a member of the Advisory Board of EUCERS and was a member of the Finance and Economics Focus Group at Eurelectric until 2010. He is also a Fellow of the Energy Institute.