Markus Klimmer

Dr. Markus Klimmer is a management and policy consultant with an impressive career spanning business, government, and the arts. As a Partner at McKinsey, he was the co-founder and co-leader of their global Public Sector business. He later joined Accenture as a Senior Partner for Public Sector Strategy Consulting. Markus has served governments and international public sector organisations in more than 40 countries. He served in government twice – first as the chief economic advisor and campaign strategist for German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in his then-capacity as German Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor, and later as policy and campaign strategist for Austria’s Federal Chancellor Christian Kern. As an entrepreneur, he is co-founder of HH2E, the fast-growing German green hydrogen company, and Daluma, the Berlin-based cult brand for health and lifestyle, amongst others. Markus is the Chairman of the Bauhaus Museum and Archive; Villa Aurora and Thomas Mann House Los Angeles (Artist’s and Scientist’s Residence Programme of Germany), and a Komische Oper Berlin Board Member. In 2019, he was appointed Artistic Advisor of the Opera Houses in Prague (extended to 2028), where he led ‘Musica non grata’, a programme to rediscover and celebrate the Czech-Jewish-German musical world between the wars. He is a Non-Executive Director of the leading classical music management company, HarrisonParrott Group. Markus is an Austrian citizen and lives in Berlin and London with his partner.