Managing Director of Austria Solar

Roger Hackstock is the longtime managing director of the Association Austria Solar. He has worked in the energy transition for almost three decades and worked in the Ministry of Science, the Institute for Technology Assessment of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, as a management assistant in the Austrian Energy Agency, program manager in the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund and as independent energy policy consultant.

He is a lecturer in the Master Course “Renewable energy systems” at the Vienna University of Technology. In 2014 he published the book “Energiewende – the revolution has already started”, and in 2017 a second book “Flexible and free”. How a comprehensive energy transition changes our lives.” (both published in German).

He was appointed Solar Heat Europe Director in June 2023, representing the category of National Associations.