Geoffrey Aori Mabea is an energy economist and corporate executive and the current Executive Secretaryof the Energy Regulators Association of East Africa. He assumed office in 2020 as the first Executive Secretary of the regional Organisation with the mandate of spearheading establishment of the East African Community Energy Union. Prior to joining EREA, he was a researcher at the University of Dundee. He also served as a capital projects advisor with

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Education

Mabea holds a bachelor's degree in Geomatics and a Master of Business Administration both obtained from

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) is a public university that is situated in Juja, 36 kilometres northeast of Nairobi, along the Nairobi-Thika SuperHighway, off Exit 15. .It offers courses in Technology, Engineering, ...

. He also has an Master of Science in energy economics and policy from the

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on a Chevening Scholarship. Later, he pursued a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Energy economics from the University of Dundee Scotland on a Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy Scholarship.

Career

Mabea started his career as a port

surveyor Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is ca ...

with the Kenya Ports Authority before switching his career into the Energy market. He worked in various senior positions with

Kenya Electricity Generating Company Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC abbreviated to KenGen, is a government enterprise in the Republic of Kenya charged with the production of electricity for the country. KenGen is the largest electric power producer in Kenya, generating ...

in Kenya and Geothermal Development Company. He was appointed to the national committees for energy planning and Feed-in tariff for Kenya between 2010 and 2012. While at Geothermal Development Company, he managed the delivery of over US$400million of

Geothermal energy Geothermal energy is the thermal energy in the Earth's crust which originates from the formation of the planet and from radioactive decay of materials in currently uncertain but possibly roughly equal proportions. The high temperature and pres ...

projects at Menengai and Olkaria fields. He was later appointed to the capacity building cluster committee of the Northern Corridor Integration Projects as representative from Geothermal Development Company under the Ministry of Energy, Kenya. In 2014, he joined PriceWaterHouseCoopers first, as capital projects advisor for the East Market and later as a senior

consultant A consultant (from la, consultare "to deliberate") is a professional (also known as ''expert'', ''specialist'', see variations of meaning below) who provides advice and other purposeful activities in an area of specialization. Consulting servic ...

. In 2020, the General Assembly of Energy Regulators Association of East Africa, appointed him as its first Executive Secretary to work closely with the East African Community Secretariat and the national regulatory authorities to achieve the Energy Union. He is instrumental in establishing the East African Community Energy Union and the realisation of the Africa Single Electricity Market and the Eastern Africa Power Pool. He has pioneered the development of the Energy Regulation Centre of Excellence (ERCE).

Other activities

Mabea sits on the

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of Nalule Energy and Mineral Consultants . He also sits at the governing board of the Energy Regulation Centre of Excellence(ERCE). He is also a member of the

International Association for Energy Economics International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) is an international non-profit society of professionals interested in energy economics. IAEE was founded in 1977, during the period of the energy crisis. IAEE is incorporated under United State ...

. His main areas of interest are

energy policy Energy policy is the manner in which a given entity (often governmental) has decided to address issues of energy development including energy conversion, distribution and use as well as reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in order to contri ...

harmonisation, energy markets integration, economic welfare, economic governance and

sustainable Specific definitions of sustainability are difficult to agree on and have varied in the literature and over time. The concept of sustainability can be used to guide decisions at the global, national, and individual levels (e.g. sustainable livin ...

capacity building.

References

External links

Brief BioWebsite of the Energy Regulators of East AfricaWebsite of the Energy Regulation Centre of Excellence
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