As the vice president, Jan Rosenow partners with RAP’s CEO and senior leadership team on global strategy while providing programmatic direction to RAP’s European team with a focus on RAP's initiatives in Europe on power market design, energy regulation, electrification, the gas transition and energy efficiency.
Rosenow serves in various board and expert committee roles with current and past roles including the World Economic Forum’s Senior Executive Group on Electrification, the International Energy Agency’s Executive Committee of the DSM TCP, the European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (eceee) and GLOBSEC.
He has also advised the International Energy Agency, the European Commission, the European Parliament, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ), government departments in a number of countries and the UK’s Office of Gas and Electricity Markets, as well as serving as an expert witness on several occasions to the European and British Parliaments. He is a former special advisor to the British House of Commons and the lead author of the International Energy Agency’s first global assessment of market-based instruments for energy efficiency.
An accomplished academic, Rosenow has contributed extensively to energy research. He is a research associate at Oxford, Cambridge, Sussex and FU Berlin. His scholarly work includes hundreds of peer-reviewed articles, technical reports and opinion pieces on energy and sustainability, which have been widely cited and used to shape policy discussions.
Rosenow is also a highly sought-after keynote speaker, regularly invited to present at national and international conferences. His speaking engagements include the United Nations, the International Energy Agency, the World Economic Forum, the European Parliament and more. He is also the co-founder and co-host of the "Watt Matters" podcast, where he discusses energy and sustainability issues with leading experts.
In recognition of his impact in the energy sector, Rosenow has been named one of the top 100 players in the global climate space and among the top 25 energy influencers and top 15 sustainability influencers worldwide. Additionally, he is one of LinkedIn's Top Green Voices. His commitment to advancing the UK’s energy future led to his election as a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and his contributions to the energy sector have earned him a fellowship at the Energy Institute.
Jan Rosenow earned several postgraduate qualifications, including a master’s degree in environmental policy and regulation from the London School of Economics and a doctorate from Oxford University.
How Jan Rosenow is Energizing Change
Some like it hot: Moving industrial electrification from potential to practice
Industrial energy use — including for heat in industrial processes — is a significant source of carbon… Read More +
A policy toolkit for global mass heat pump deployment version 2.0
Heat pumps, a critical technology for clean energy systems, are becoming the most important technology for heating… Read More +
What does a day at RAP look like for you?
On a typical day I will split my time between team management, writing technical reports and opinion pieces, presenting on energy and climate topics to external stakeholders, advising policy makers, speaking to funders and communicating through social media.
What is something that makes you feel hopeful about the future?
Human ingenuity.
What is something special about your community?
I live in East Oxford, a thriving and diverse neighbourhood in a global city.