AREA - Key Persons


Abraão Andrade Lopes

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • President, Institute of Quality Management, Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Energy, Cabo Verde

Ansgar Kiene

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Team Leader Climate & Energy, Greenpeace Mediterranean

Anthony Ighodaro

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Chairman, AREA Steering Committee / Director, SolarSolve / KXN Ltd
  • Director, Solarsolve / KXN, AREA SC Chair, Nigeria

Dr. John Mthandi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Programme Director, Development Aid from People to People, Malawi

Dr. Ruth Rabinowitz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Founder, the Democracy Foundation / MamaEarth, South Africa

Gifty Baaba Asmah

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Founder / Executive Director, Daasgift Quality Foundation, Ghana

Hervé Azemtsa

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Director, S2Services, Cameroon

Ivy Chipasha

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Project Analyst, Green Knowledge Institute, Zambia

Joseph Nganga

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • CEO, Renewable Energy Ventures, Kenya

Mahama Kappiah

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Executive Director, ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency - ECREEE, Cape Verde

Prof. Abubakar Sambo

Job Titles:
  • Vice Chair of the Steering Committee
  • Vice Chair, Africa, World Energy Council Special Adviser to the President on Energy, Nigeria

Prof. Salah Arafa

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee

Rita Effah

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Africa Coordinator, the Energy and Resources Institute - TERI, Ethiopia

Zohra Abib

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Director, EnR‘Afrique, Morocco