Lili Fuhr

Director, Fossil Economy Program

Lili Fuhr (she/her) is the Director of CIEL’s Fossil Economy Program. In that role, Lili leads a team of dedicated attorneys and campaigners working to transform our economic system to urgently address the political, social, and economic realities of the triple crisis of climate, biodiversity, and pollution by exposing the risks and impacts of false solutions, with particular attention to petrochemicals, agrochemicals, carbon capture and storage, and geoengineering technologies.

Prior to joining CIEL, Lili headed the International Environmental Policy Division of the Heinrich Böll Foundation for 15 years.

Lili is a board member of the ETC Group, and sits on the international Steering Committee for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative.

Lili studied Geography, Political Science, Sociology and African Studies in Cologne, Tübingen, Strasbourg and Berlin. She was born in Cologne, Germany, and lives in Berlin with her two daughters, a step son and her husband.

Lili can be reached at lfuhr@ciel.org.