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Amy Chiang is Topsoe’s Chief Sustainability and External Affairs Officer. As a part of Topsoe’s Senior Leadership Team, she oversees both the company’s external efforts to accelerate the energy transition and its internal sustainability strategy. Amy’s leadership responsibilities span Sustainability, Public Affairs, Product Stewardship, Communications and Branding, and Public-Private Partnerships.   

For more than 25 years, Amy has been a leading expert in aligning public policy, business strategy and innovation to help drive the energy transition. Working in both the public and private sectors, she has built enduring partnerships and forged working relationships that have helped shape global policy changes and business strategies that have been the foundation of progress over the last few decades.   

Amy served as Director of International Affairs in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, where she guided efforts around creating breakthrough international agreements. She was Deputy Chief of Staff to U.S. Representative Sherwood Boehlert and a professional staff member in the House Science Committee.   

 She spent more than a decade in the private sector, leading global government relations strategy in areas including sustainability, climate change, global trade and technology. In addition, she has worked in management consulting and on Wall Street as a currency derivatives trader.    

Amy earned a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an International MBA (IMBA) from the University of Chicago.   

Kim Hedegaard is Chief Executive Officer of Power-to-X (PtX), Topsoe’s industry-leading solution that converts renewable energy into e-fuels for customers. He is responsible for PtX strategy, commercialization, technology development and production, and is a member of the company’s Senior Management Team. 

Kim leads the team executing Topsoe’s trailblazing work to scale the innovative Solide Oxide Electrolyzer Cell (SOEC) technology and PtX solutions to produce green hydrogen, ammonia and other e-fuels. He works closely with customers, industry partners and policy makers to help develop and scale this breakthrough technology to drive the energy transition forward.   

As of January 1, 2025, Kim took over the co-chairmanship role of the Renewable Hydrogen Coalition, a leading European platform promoting the critical role of renewable hydrogen in delivering the EU's long-term decarbonization goals. The coalition brings together a high-level, interdisciplinary network of start-ups, investors, entrepreneurs, innovative companies, and industrial off-takers, all dedicated to making Europe the global leader in renewable hydrogen solutions.

He serves as a board member at FlexHospital and AmCham Denmark. 

Kim joined Topsoe in 1999 and has more than 25 years of experience in engineering, business management and sales. Prior to his current role, he served as Topsoe’s Chief Operating Officer and was in charge of Global Supply. 

Kim earned an M.S. in chemical engineering from the Technical University of Denmark.