Sanja Kapetina is the Head of Department for Secondary Energy and Projects at the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is in charge of implementing EU Energy and Climate Regulations in Bosnia and Herzegovina. As such, she is involved in activities related to the fulfilment of BiH obligations defined by the various international agreements, with a…
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His Excellency Mahamane Sani Mahamadou is Niger Republic’s Minister of Petroleum, Energy and Renewable Energies since April 2021. Prior to this appointment, Sani Mahamadou held various senior roles in both private and public sectors. In June 2016, he was appointed Special Advisor to the President of the Republic of Niger, in charge of communications, press and ICT. In June 2018, he was appointed…
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Shri Indu Shekhar Chaturvedi assumed charge as Secretary, Ministry of New & Renewable Energy in May 2020. Shri Chaturvedi is a 1987 Batch IAS officer and belongs to Jharkhand cadre and succeeded Shri Anand Kumar in the Ministry who earlier took charge Secretary, Ministry of Culture. Prior to this appointment, Shri. Chaturvedi was serving as Additional Chief Secretary and Additional Secretary…
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Gabriela Elizondo Azuela is Practice Manager of the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) at the World Bank In this role, she oversees a global portfolio of analytical and advisory activities in the energy sector, as well as the Bank’s energy climate finance operations. Ms. Elizondo-Azuela, a Mexican national, joined the Bank in 2003. Prior to assuming her current position at ESMAP…
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Ms. Annick Muhama’s responsibilities include spearheading the implementation of the Ministry’s mission in the Energy Sector. She has over 10 years’ experience in Energy, having served in various positions in the Government of Rwanda from 2003 with Energy as her sole focus. Prior to joining MININFRA, Ms. Annick has served as the Director of Energy Regulation at the Rwanda Utilities Regulatory…
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Dr. Birol has served as Executive Director of the IEA since 2015. Under his leadership, the IEA has moved to the forefront of global efforts to reach international climate goals while ensuring that the social and economic impacts of clean energy transitions are at the heart of policy making and energy security is safeguarded. Dr. Birol has been named in the TIME100, TIME’s annual list of the…
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Mr. Clerc, the CEO of Voltalia, has specialized in the infrastructure sector, and renewable energies in particular, for over 25 years. He also has proven expertise in change management and in company creation and development. Following 10 years in project financing at Crédit Lyonnais in Canada, then in New York, he returned to France in 1999 to join Ixis, then a subsidiary of Caisse des Dépôts,…
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Evans Wadongo is a Partner at Wadson Ventures, an early stage venture builder working with promising African start-ups. He is a Co-Founder at GreenWize Energy, which is advancing cutting-edge African-designed renewable energy solutions in Sub-Saharan Africa. He is also the Founder of Sustainable Development For All, an organization that has helped lift thousands of mostly rural people out of…
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Joins us to discuss how nature loss is an economic and development issue, and how it is linked to climate change, as well as pathways to undertake both nature and climate-smart development in the future, including through expanding our economic toolkit beyond GDP to account for the wealth provided by nature.
Type: Event
As developing countries create their own path, ESMAP, with its donor partners and partner organizations, is supporting them in thinking through their energy transition and energy access roadmaps.
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