Future of Energy

Dolf Joekes

Managing Director

Talitha Muusse

Host & Presenter

Conference Host of Future of Energy

Georges Beukering

Director, Head of Capital Raising & BD

Damilola Ogunbiyi

CEO of SEforALL, Co-Chair UN-Energy

Gilles Parmentier

CEO

Maarten van Renssen

Managing Director, ESG and Climate

Ana Hajduka

Founder & CEO

Rianne 't Hoen

Senior Consultant Energy Storage

Ann-Mari Lillejord

Executive Vice President

Epitacio Miranda

Principal, Energy Infrastructure

Damian Miller

Co-founder and CEO

Luis Andres Alandia

Senior Investment Officer

Devendra Chawla

Managing Director & CEO

Staf Seurinck

Local Business Manager Motion & Director

Daphnée Benayoun

Associate Partner

Sindhura Swaminathan

Partner

Christiane Würdemann

Head of Impact Finance Services

Tina Simonishvili

Vice President, DCM

Doreen Abeysundra

Founder & Principal

Huub den Rooijen

Senior Advisor

Chris Flavin

Head of Business Development

Harry Verhaar

Head of Global Public & Government Affairs

Noble Ekajeh

Managing Director

Tunde Akerele

CEO

Randa Mrabat

Global Head of Mini-grids Product & Commercial

Prince Ojeabulu

CEO

Andreas Cremer

Director Infrastructure / Energy

Mehmet Erdem Yasar

Associate Director, Energy Eurasia MEA

Edwin van de Brug

Regional Manager

Petra Kotte

Senior Director

Vivek Mittal

CEO

Julia von Franz

Policy and Advocacy Officer

Johannes Bochdalofsky

Co-Founder & Project Lead

Marianna Sédéfian

Partner

Anne Gautier

Head of Power & Digital Latin America and Asia

Shalabh Singhania

Chief Investment Officer

Stefanie Fairholme

Chief Investment Officer

Junnie Wangari

CEO and Founder

Junnie Wangari

CEO and Founder

Wanergy Africa Limited

Junnie is a vision-driven and experienced business leader with a proven history of innovation and achievement, cultivated throughout her career from driving new products lines, to driving efficiencies in the value chain and expanding boundaries of existing products. She has over 20 years’ experience in sales, marketing and business development having worked and held leadership roles in various multinational companies that include GlaxoSmithKline, Airtel, Coca-Cola Africa and Bidco Africa Limited. Her leadership qualities have enabled her to build long standing relationships with customers and allowed her to build consensus among multi-national teams and stakeholders to influence positive change and leverage resources to build sustainable businesses. Junnie is passionate about the environment and living in a growing African city has over the years seen increased significant pressure on the city’s resources especially in areas around waste generation and disposal. Illegal and uncontrolled waste dumping has become the norm leading to unsustainable open dump sites that have become a health and safety hazard to human and animal life. It is on this platform that Wanergy Africa Limited was born- To develop sustainable disposal solutions to municipal waste material through its conversion into renewable energy and other sustainable resources and build profitable value chains that benefit the same communities. Junnie holds a Masters Degree in Strategic Management from The School of Business, The University of Nairobi and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics & Mathematics from the University of Nairobi. A Diploma holder in Marketing from The Chartered Institute of Marketing, she is also a member of the Marketing Society of Kenya and Kenya Renewable Energy Association that keeps her abreast of new developments and frontiers that need human intervention to create a better world for all.

Jisung Won

Senior Underwriter

Benjamin Hugues

Investment Director & REPP 2 Lead

Eren Ergin

CEO

Christoph Both

Senior Advisor

Rupesh Hindocha

CEO and Chairman

Alexandre Lambolez

Chief Financial Officer

Joseph Armah

Head of Product

Wilfred van den Bos

Chief Development & Investment Officer

Anna Marie Owie

Senior Vice President & Board member

Borislav Kostadinov

Fund Director | Green for Growth Fund

Anders Hauch

Investment Director, Partner

Nick Gibbins

Director

Gerard Reid

Co-Founder & Partner

Ryan Ketchum

Partner

Michael Salomon

CEO & Founder

Davide Maneschi

Climate Change Programme Officer

Alp Tilev

Co-founder and CTO

Cato Kral

Team Leader

Maurits Jager

Head of Project Finance & Investments

Herbert Wakaabu

Founder & Director, Project Development

Jiwoo Choi

Chief of Strategic Initiatives

Stefan Issler

Head of Direct Investments

Huub Kavelaars

Partnership Manager

Monica Swanson

Program Manager International Hydrogen

Bruce Johnson

Director, Corporate Finance & Treasury

Bart Turtelboom

Chair & CEO

Jürgen Peterseim

Director Sustainability

Marco Monroy

Founder and CEO

Quentin De Hoe

Senior Investment Officer for ElectriFI

Osaruyi Orobosa-Ogbeide

Senior Vice President Project Development

Osaruyi Orobosa-Ogbeide

Senior Vice President Project Development

Africa Finance Corporation

Osaruyi Orobosa-Ogbeide is an accomplished business executive with international experience, focusing on financing infrastructure projects across Africa by developing projects and teams that implement multi-million-dollar projects in mining, renewable energy, power, transport, telecoms and heavy manufacturing. Osaruyi currently serves as Senior Vice President Project Development and Investments, at the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), where he is responsible for AFC’s project development efforts, business development and project origination. He also has in the past managed the AFC-FMO joint project development facility, which deployed early-stage investment to projects to achieve bankability. He is the Alternate Director on the Board of the Africa Infrastructure Development Association (AfIDA). He was a former Board Member of Day Star Power Nigeria. Osaruyi executed AFC’s first platform investment in the Gabon Special Economic Zone (GSEZ), alongside the Gabonese government and Olam International, a long-time player in Gabon’s agro-industrial and infrastructure space. The investment supported development and construction of a portfolio of seven portfolio projects, industrial economic zones, and common infrastructure. He is currently leading the development of several renewable projects at AFC. He recently led the origination, development, and financing of AFC’s 60MW wind farm in Djibouti, which was commissioned in September 2023 and where he served as Project Director (acting CEO) of the operating company, Red Sea Power. He is leading the development of several projects on the continent. Osaruyi began his career with Financial Derivatives Company – a boutique investment banking firm in Lagos, in November 2007 as an economic research analyst and left the company as head of Financial Advisory. Osaruyi has an MBA from Lagos Business School, a degree in Biochemistry from the University of Benin and has attended several trainings in project finance, financial modelling, writing and public speaking, entrepreneurship, a corporate governance course at IMD and other leadership courses at the London Business School.

Daniel Calderon

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Rushad Nanavatty

Managing Director, Third Derivative

Rainer Hönig

Founder and CEO

David Damberger

Managing Director

Francisco Fortuny

Senior Investment Operations Specialist

Ruurd Brouwer

CEO

Itske Lulof

Sector Head Energy & Climate

Jon Bahen

Chief Executive Officer

Rens Philipsen

Manager

Felipe Loose

Electrical Engineer

Pablo Necochea

Floating Systems Integration Strategy Director

Chad Canfield

Director Project Finance

Daan Roosegaarde

Artist and Innovator

Daan Roosegaarde

Artist and Innovator

Studio Roosegaarde

Dutch artist and innovator Daan Roosegaarde (1979) is a creative thinker and maker of social designs which explore the relation between people, technology and space. He founded Studio Roosegaarde in 2007, where he works with his team of designers and engineers towards a better future. Together they develop ‘Landscapes of the Future’ building smart sustainable prototypes for the cities of tomorrow. Roosegaarde has been driven by nature’s gifts such as light emitting fireflies and jellyfish since an early age. His fascination for nature and technology is reflected in his iconic designs such as Waterlicht (a virtual flood) and Smog Free Project (the largest outdoor air purifier in the world which makes jewellery from smog) and Space Waste Lab (the mission to upcycle junk that floats in space). Roosegaarde graduated from The Berlage Institute with a master in architecture. He is a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, a visiting professor at several universities, was selected by Forbes and Good 100 as a creative change maker and named Artist of the Year 2016 in The Netherlands. Roosegaarde has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including the Shenzhen Global Design Award, Ethics Ethical Award, World OMOSIROI Award Japan, Dezeen Award, London Design Innovation Medal, DFA Gold and Grand Award Hong Kong, LIT 2017 Lighting Designer of the Year Award, D&AD Awards 2017, the World Technology Award, two Dutch Design Awards, the Charlotte Köhler Award, and China’s Most Successful Design Award. He has exhibited at the Design Museum London, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Tate Modern, Tokyo National Museum, Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs Paris, Victoria & Albert Museum, and various public spaces across the globe.