Damilola Ogunbiyi is a Nigerian

sustainable energy Energy is sustainable if it "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". Most definitions of sustainable energy include considerations of environmental aspects such as greenh ...

advocate. She is the Chief Executive Officer of Sustainable Energy for All, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All, and Co-Chair of

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. Ogunbiyi was the Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency of

Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...

from May 2017 to December 2019. She was also the Senior Special Assistant to the President of Nigeria,

Muhammadu Buhari Muhammadu Buhari (born 17 December 1942) is a Nigerian politician and current president of Nigeria since 2015. Buhari is a retired Nigerian Army major general who served as the country's military head of state from 31 December 1983 to 27 Au ...

, and Head of the Advisory Power Team within the Office of the Vice-President. Ogunbiyi became CEO and the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative of Sustainable Energy for All at the beginning of 2020. She is also a commentator on

renewable energy Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources that are naturally replenished on a human timescale. It includes sources such as sunlight, wind, the movement of water, and geothermal heat. Although most renewable energy ...

access, the

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and the inclusion of women and youth in the energy sector. She has written about the importance of energy access for health-care services during the

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pandemic and how energy access can support economic recovery from the pandemic in countries like Nigeria. She is a Commissioner for the international think-tank the Energy Transitions Commission, and a Commissioner for the Global Commission to End

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, an initiative by the

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(MIT) and

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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

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