Mats Rinaldo – Deputy Director and Senior Researcher in the Energy Transition Programme at Group Research and Development, DNV. Mats holds a Master’s degree in Sustainability Leadership from Cambridge University and a Master of Science in Marine Technology from NTNU in Trondheim, Norway. Mats has spent most of his professional career at DNV. His experience includes various positions within DNV’s Maritime, Software, Business Assurance and Sustainability Business Areas, located in Australia, Japan and currently now in Oslo, Norway.

Mats’s previous positions include Director of Operations for DNV’s third party services within UNFCCC’s carbon market mechanisms and DNV Software Country Manager in Japan. In 2017 Rinaldo transferred into the Energy Transition Programme in DNV Group Research and Development. His work there focuses on understanding the global energy transition towards 2050 and finding solutions to challenges involving energy, technology and climate change.