Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Stefan Kapferer has been the Chief Executive Officer of 50Hertz since December 2019 and is member of the steering committee of the Belgian-German Elia Group. Since 2025, he has also served as Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Elia Group.
For several years, he acted as State Secretary in different departments at both the state and national level, including the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs as of 2011. From 2014 to 2016, he was Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD in Paris. From 2016 to 2019, he managed the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (Bundesverband der Deutschen Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft, BDEW).