Damilola Ogunbiyi
Damilola Ogunbiyi is a Nigerian-born sustainable energy advocate. She is the Chief Executive Officer of Sustainable Energy for All, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All, and Co-Chair of UN-Energy.[1]
Ogunbiyi was the Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency of Nigeria from May 2017 to December 2019.[2] She was also the Senior Special Assistant to the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, and Head of the Advisory Power Team within the Office of the Vice-President.
Ogunbiyi is a commentator on renewable energy access[3], the Sustainable Development Goals and the inclusion of women and youth in the energy sector.[4] She has written about the importance of energy access for health-care services during the COVID-19 pandemic[5] [6] and how energy access can support economic recovery from the pandemic in countries like Nigeria.[7]
She is a Commissioner for the international think-tank the Energy Transitions Commission, and a Commissioner for the Global Commission to End Energy Poverty, an initiative by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Rockefeller Foundation.
Education
- 2001 – B.Sc. Project Management with Construction, University of Brighton
- 2002 – M.Sc. Construction Management with Public Private Partnership, University of Brighton
Career
- 2008-2010 – Consultant, Department for International Development, Government of the United Kingdom
- 2010-2011 – Senior Special Assistant on PPP to the Governor of Lagos State, Lagos State Government
- 2011-2015 – General Manager, Lagos State Electricity Board, Lagos State Government
- 2015-2019 – Senior Special Assistant to the President of Nigeria and Head of Advisory Power Team, Office of the Vice President, Federal Government of Nigeria
- 2017-2019 – Managing Director, Rural Electrification Agency, Federal Government of Nigeria
- 2020 – Chief Executive Officer, Sustainable Energy for All
- 2020 – Co-Chair, UN-Energy
- 2020 – Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All, United Nations
References
- ^ "Ms. Damilola Ogunbiyi of Nigeria - Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All". United Nations.
- ^ G, Dimitris. "UN special representative, Damilola Ogunbiyi, about her lifelong fight for sustainable energy for all". The Beam. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
- ^ "Damilola Ogunbiyi on how to bridge the energy gap in Africa". CNBC Africa. 2020-07-14. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
- ^ "DAMILOLA OGUNBIYI: Girls should be equipped to break poverty trap". Latest Nigeria News, Nigerian Newspapers, Politics. 2019-06-29. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
- ^ Puliti, Riccardo; Ogunbiyi, Damilola (2020-04-21). "Africa: Energy Access Takes Center Stage in COVID-19 Fight, Powering Africa's Recovery". allAfrica.com. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
- ^ Foundation, Thomson Reuters. "Power in a pandemic: Why energy access matters during coronavirus". news.trust.org. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
{{cite web}}:|first=has generic name (help) - ^ "Nigeria is using the pandemic to build a better energy future". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 2020-09-17.