Secretary General, Hydrogen Europe
Jorgo Chatzimarkakis is Secretary General of Hydrogen Europe since 2016. Before he was
Representative of Infineon Technologies in Brussels and Member of the European Parliament (2004
– 2014) inter alia in the ITRE Committee (Industry, Technology, Research and Energy) where he could
contribute to lay the cornerstone for the first and the second Joint Undertaking on hydrogen and
fuel cells. In 2007 he was elected “MEP of the year” by his colleagues of the European Parliament in
the category “Research and Innovation”. In 2015 he was appointed ambassador at large for Greece.
Mr Chatzimarkakis was born in Duisburg, Germany. He holds German and Greek nationality, a
degree in political science from the University of Bonn.