Claudia Kemfert (born 17 December 1968) is a German economics expert in the areas of energy research and environmental protection.

She heads the Energy, Transportation, and Environment department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin).

Following her post-doc, from January 1999 to April 2000, Kemfert led a research group at the Institute for Rational Application of Energies at the University of Stuttgart.

[1] Outside of academia, Kemfert served as shadow minister for energy policy in the campaigns of Norbert Röttgen (CDU) in North Rhine-Westphalia (2012) and of Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel (SPD) in Hesse (2013).

[3] She also advised President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso in a high-level Group on Energy and Climate.