Joel Boehme

• Building bridges between the cleantech community and EU policy-makers to put cleantech innovation at the centre of the public debate.
• Work includes following and advocating for sustainable solutions across wide range of policy areas, such as climate & environment, industry, investment and innovation policy.
• Work remit includes the full range of communications tasks, from press management, to social media and beyond.
• Job requires communicative talent, an understanding of relevant policy areas, and a keen eye for how to interact constructively the political process.
• Cleantech for Europe is part of the Secretariat for the Cleantech Friendship Group in the European Parliament, which has presented opportunities to interact directly with MEPs, their offices, and their work.

• Joined founding management team of Sigma European Think Tank, a growing new think-tank in Brussels.
• Co-authored a number of policy reports on the topic of combatting disinformation, within two projects co-sponsored by NATO's Public Diplomacy Division.
• Responsible for the organisation's Partnerships Team, tasked with project pitching & strategic networking across institutions and allied groups.

• Res Terrae S.R.L Is a small management and business advisory firm, delivering sustainable global solutions as well as comms solutions for the Brussels market.
• During my time at Res Terrae, I contributed to the company's range of services, assisting in the development of advocacy projects, as well as research and report writing.
• Started as a curricular internship, and stayed on afterwards, and followed CEO when he went on to start Sigma European Think-Tank

• Served as part of Volt Europa's European-level political leadership.
• Contributed to Volt's political positioning on a range of policy areas, from the response to the then-unfolding COVID-19 pandemic, foreign policy and social issues such as minority rights projection, combatting homelessness.
• Published and co-published a large number of opinion pieces promoting Volt's vision, alone and with other party representatives in a broad range of respected media outlets, sometimes with the co-signature of MEP Damian Boeselager.
• Successfully ollaborated with high-level external stakeholders, including liaising with Taiwanese diplomatic services and pro-European Armenian stakeholders.
• Led the party's political strategising and positioning through a slew of internal and external tasks ranging from policy development to team management and conflict mediation.

Since joining the party in 2018, I have held a range of positions:

• Chaired the Swedish Board between October 2018 to October 2019.
• Ran for the European Parliament for Volt Sweden in 2019, generating some of Volt Sweden's first coverage in the country.
• During the months preceding and following the 2019 EP Elections, I chaired the Country Council (then-named 'Volt Country Representation, carefully helping the party navigate a very turbulent time in the its early history by coordinating national chapter leaderships).
• Went on to serve on the European Board of Directors between 2019 - 2021 (see separate entry).
• Following my mandate, returned to the Swedish Board of Directors to contribute my experience from across the organisation, serving one term as Treasurer and another as non-executive board member.
• Also co-chaired the Task Force formed immediately in the wake of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, to coordinate our response to the rapidly unfolding crisis.
• Was elected as a substitute on Volt Belgium's Francophone list in the EP elections of 2024.