Recently confirmed panellists at the next AIX Power & Renewables meeting at RSA House on 29-30 October 2024:
🔸Joel Abrams — Director, Investments & Business Development, Konexa
🔸Abba Abubakar Aliyu — Managing Director, Rural Electrification Agency, Nigeria
🔸Victor Adamu — Energy Advisor, Nigeria, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
🔸Ojuru Adeniji — Vice President in the Origination and Structuring, InfraCredit
🔸Dafe Akpeneye — Commissioner, NERC, Nigeria
🔸Orli Arav — Managing Director, EMFin Advisory
🔸Clifford Aron — Principal, GreenMax Capital Group
🔸Kweku Awotwi — Board Chairman, United Bank for Africa
🔸Rim Azirar — Deputy Head of Investments – Emerging Market Energy Transition, Mirova
🔸Suleiman Babamanu — Nigeria Program Director, RMI
🔸Thomas Bourlière — Senior Manager, Market and Project Development, Africa & Europe, Wärtsilä Energy
🔸 Karl Boyce — CEO, ARC Power
🔸 William Brent — Chief Marketing Officer, Husk Power Systems
🔸Aaron Cheng — CEO, PowerGen Renewable Energy
🔸Derik Coetzer — Co-founder, NOA
🔸Jason De Carteret — CEO, Solarcentury Africa
🔸Tilana De Meillon — Senior Operations Officer, Africa, IFC
🔸Richard Doyle — Managing Director, Juwi Renewables South Africa
🔸Conal Duffy — Practice Leader – Political Risk, Alliant Insurance Services
🔸Paul Eardley-Taylor — Oil & Gas, Southern Africa, Standard Bank
🔸Joanne Elson — Of Counsel, Simmons & Simmons
🔸Chris Flavin — Head of Business Development and the interim co-CEO at Gridworks Development Partners
🔸Robert Futter — Director, Cresco
🔸Erik Granskog — Managing Director, Sisu Advisors
🔸Bonnie Guo — Project Finance Director, DFC
🔸Tarik Hamane — Director General, Office National de l’Electricité et de l’Eau Potable (ONEE), Morocco
🔸Dan Hollander — Deputy Director, Program Office, Power Africa
🔸Benjamin Hugues — Investment Director and REPP Lead, Camco
🔸Steven Hunt — Senior Energy Innovation Advisor, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)
🔸Steve Husbands — Head of Commercial, Oil & Gas Advisory, SLR Consulting
🔸Martin Kavanagh — Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills
🔸Ryan Ketchum — Partner, Hunton Andrews Kurth
🔸Tim Jackson — Business Development Manager, InfraCo Africa
🔸James Makinde — GM Gas Business, New Energy, Seplat Energy
🔸Jan Malan — Investment Director, Project Finance – Infrastructure & Climate Group, British International Investment
🔸Jon Marks — Chairman, African Energy
🔸Wilson Masango — Chief Engineer Markets, SAPP
🔸Nicole Mason — Head of Partnerships & Business Development, Group Carbon Innovation, Anglo American
🔸Mekdes Mezgebu — Principal, Mekdes & Associates
🔸Rachel Moré-Oshodi — CEO, ARM-Harith Infrastructure Investment
🔸Tonderayi Mukeredzi — Southern Africa Editor, African Energy
🔸Brian Mushimba — CEO – Power, GL Africa Energy
🔸Pinehas Mutota — General Manager, Economic Regulation, Electricity Control Board, Namibia
🔸Eric Mwangi — Advisor to the Climate Envoy in the Office of the President
🔸Mark Napier — CEO, FSD Africa
🔸Toukam Ngoufanke — Partner, Persistent
🔸Chanda Nxumalo — Director, Harmattan Renewables
🔸Frederick Nyang — Director, African School of Regulation (ASR)
🔸Jasandra Nyker — Managing Partner, Saja Climate Partners
🔸Lucinda O’Gorman — Associate Director, GuarantCo
🔸Anita Otubu — Senior Director, Universal Energy Facility (SEforALL)
🔸Mostefa Ouki — Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
🔸Mike Peo — Head: Infrastructure, Energy & Telecommunication, Nedbank
🔸Ignacio Pérez-Arriaga — External Advisor, African School of Regulation (ASR)
🔸Federico Pontoni — Program Director, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
🔸Pradeep Pursnani — CEO, Konexa
🔸Jules Samain — Managing Director, Energy Access for the Hardest-to-Reach, Acumen–Debt Fund
🔸Tichakunda Simbini — Principal Programme Officer-Energy, AUDA-NEPAD
🔸John Smelcer — Interim Chief Development Officer, Globeleq
🔸Susan Smith— Vice President, Concessional Finance Solutions, Odyssey Energy Solutions
🔸Patrick Smith —Editor, Africa Confidential
🔸Phoebe Sullivan — Energy Officer, Power Africa
🔸Yann Tanvez — Senior Investment Officer – Infrastructure, Africa, IFC
🔸Frederik Thoring Flagstad — Vice President, Head of Africa, Growth Markets Fund, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners
🔸Damien Twambilangana — Deputy Director General, ANSER
🔸Chiedu Ugbo — Immediate Past MD/CEO, Niger Delta Power Holding Company
🔸Yusuf Umar — CEO, Renewables Investment Platform for Limitless Energy, RIPLE
🔸Andrew Tipping — Technical Director, ECA
🔸Rentia van Tonder — Head: Renewable Energy, Power and Infrastructure, Standard Bank
🔸Ziria Tibalwa Waako — Chief Executive Officer, Electricity Regulatory Authority
🔸Susie Wheeldon — Head of Communications and Insights, GOGLA
🔸Fedde Zwart — Senior Investment Officer – Energy – Africa, FMO
*Awaiting final confirmation
About the African Investment Exchange (AIX) meeting
- We are focused on producing meetings that establish an enduring dialogue for energy industry professionals, with the aim of stimulating business engagement and long-term partnerships.
- The established AIX format has been running since 2013, and is known for its robust debate and knowledge-led approach.
- Panel sessions and roundtable discussions under the Chatham House Rule address key market opportunities and examine how to break down barriers to investment.
- AIX is organised by African Energy, a consultancy that has been involved at the heart of the debate surrounding the development of the energy sector in Africa for more than 20 years.
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