Dr. Martin Lux is heading the energy team of KFW Development Bank India office since August 2020. He has been working for KfW since 2010. Before coming to India, he was a sector economist for climate finance and climate mainstreaming since 2016. He has more than 25 years of experience in climate mitigation and adaptation, energy, governance, practical forestry, and environmental and natural resources management. Apart from Germany he has lived and worked in Costa Rica, Venezuela, Indonesia, Guatemala, Bolivia, Ghana and India.

He studied forestry (M.Sc.) with specialization in ecology and silviculture and business administration (MBA) with specialization in development economics and wrote his PhD thesis on natural resource management and sustainable regional development in Venezuela.