Lee Beck

About

Lee Beck is CATF’s Senior Director for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, overseeing CATF’s climate strategy to advance a broad portfolio of solutions in these regions. She is also responsible for advancing CATF’s efforts on the global climate policy stage through overseeing CATF’s presence at the COP and related international convenings. Lee is an expert on transatlantic partnerships and international affairs. Lee frequently speaks at and moderates high-level events, including on and off-the-record CEO- and Ministerial-level dialogues, around the world. Her thought leadership has been featured in publications such as Bloomberg, The Washington Post, the Financial Times, and Tagesspiegel.

Dedicated to optionality and overlooked solutions, Lee recently worked with a multiorganizational team to launch the globally-oriented Nuclear Scaling Initiative, focused on scaling nuclear energy in the U.S. and Central and Eastern Europe. Lee is an expert in carbon management technologies, having served as CATF’s Global Director for carbon capture. She led the team’s expansion in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East, while helping launch CATF’s overall European efforts. Under her leadership, the carbon capture team played an integral role in advancing cutting-edge carbon management policies globally. The team helped secure $12 billion in funding for carbon capture, removal, and storage in the U.S. Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, as well as make improvements to the 45Q tax credit in the Inflation Reduction Act.  The team also put forward the vision for a European Strategy for Carbon Capture and Storage.

Passionate about advancing the climate ecosystem and facilitating high-value partnerships and multi-lateral agreements and initiatives, Lee advises a range of organizations, governments, and foundations globally on their strategies.

Lee came to CATF from the Global CCS Institute. Lee worked for the Vermont Energy Investment Cooperation, at Eni USA in their Washington DC International Relations Office, focusing on international affairs and government relations, and the EU Delegation to the U.S. Before focusing on the energy field, Lee was a journalist reporting for multiple outlets reporting from Germany, Italy, Tanzania, and Hong Kong.

She has a Master of Arts in International Affairs and Economics with majors in Energy, Resources & Environment and Political Economy from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). A German citizen, and recently naturalized American, having lived in eight countries, she speaks German, French, and Italian. She is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center.