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The ESMC Team

Our team members have been entrusted by the members and the Board to work on ESMC policy issues in communication and the working groups. Don’t hesitate to contact our Secretary General if you have any question about the membership and policy topics.

Christoph Podewils | Secretary General
Jens Holm | Policy Director
Johan Lindahl | Industry Advisor

Christoph Podewils

Secretary General

Christoph Podewils
ESMC Secretary General

For more information:
podewils@esmc.solar

Jens Holm

Policy Director

Jens Holm
ESMC Policy Director

For more information:
holm@esmc.solar

Jens Holm has 15 years’ expericene as a full-time politician, with three years in the European Parliament and 12 years in the Swedish Parliament. Holm has in general worked with Swedish and international climate policies, renewable energy, sustainable transport and plant-based diet topics. Among other things, as a politician he has worked with dossiers such as EU ETS, renewable energy directive (RED), EcoDesign, the REACH-regulation, the Swedish climate policy framework and Sweden´s first climate act (2018). Holm is also a well know lecturer when it comes to climate and sustainability issues and author of several books in Swedish. He holds a Master’s degree in sociology from Uppsala university. Jens Holm have the main responsibility of ESMCs work on sustainability related policies and regulations.

Johan Lindahl

Industry Advisor

Johan Lindahl
Industry Advisor

For more information:
lindahl@esmc.solar

Dr. Johan Lindahl has extensive experience of market and regulatory issues concerning the photovoltaic market, both at national and international level. Partly as the previous Secretary General of the European Solar Manufacturing Council and partly from the work as Swedish representative in the international organization IEA PVPS for the last 13 years, but also from the previous role as the spokesperson of the industry organization Svensk Solenergi. Johan also holds a Ph.D in thin film solar cells of the type CIGS from Uppsala University, Sweden.