Maribel Rodríguez is a Forestry Engineer (UPM) and holds an MBA (EAE Business School and Rovira i Virgili University). Her professional career has focused on innovation and technological development of renewable hydrogen, as well as the application of low-carbon energy technologies in industry.
She started her career in 2007 at Ariema Energy and Environment, where she was project technologist and then deputy director. She has participated in more than 35 R&D&I projects funded by the European Union and the Spanish Government, focused on the application of green hydrogen technologies in industry.
Maribel has led the technical coordination of multiple public-private collaboration initiatives, driving the operation of the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Platform, the Spanish Hydrogen Association, the Water Technology Platform and the Hydrogen TCP of the International Energy Agency.
From 2011 to 2014, she represented the International Energy Innovation Unit and managed the CDTI-funded project office. In 2017, she started collaborating with the European Commission as an external evaluator of SME instrument proposals, analysing innovative business ideas based on clean energy and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
In 2021, she joined Fotowatio Renewables Ventures leading business development in green hydrogen. Since November of that year, she has been part of Repsol’s Hydrogen Department, where she was appointed Hydrogen Director in 2024.
She started her career in 2007 at Ariema Energy and Environment, where she was project technologist and then deputy director. She has participated in more than 35 R&D&I projects funded by the European Union and the Spanish Government, focused on the application of green hydrogen technologies in industry.
Maribel has led the technical coordination of multiple public-private collaboration initiatives, driving the operation of the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Platform, the Spanish Hydrogen Association, the Water Technology Platform and the Hydrogen TCP of the International Energy Agency.
From 2011 to 2014, she represented the International Energy Innovation Unit and managed the CDTI-funded project office. In 2017, she started collaborating with the European Commission as an external evaluator of SME instrument proposals, analysing innovative business ideas based on clean energy and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
In 2021, she joined Fotowatio Renewables Ventures leading business development in green hydrogen. Since November of that year, she has been part of Repsol’s Hydrogen Department, where she was appointed Hydrogen Director in 2024.
