Energy & gender stakeholder roundtable: Prioritizing Women's Leadership for a Just Energy Transition

Session Hosted by IFC & Power Africa

• Connecting the need to close the gender gap in STEM training/skills and why this is so important to developing women leaders and to the future of climate change.
• Why should female graduates be interested in a career in a climate-related field such a renewable energy?
• The importance of having more women in the workforce and the co-relation between women’s participation and positive climate change outcomes.

Moderator: Yvonne Okwara, Journalist, Republic of Kenya

Participants:

• Olga Utchavo Madeira, Director, National Renewable Energy Office, Mozambique
• Idesbald Chinamula, General Director, National Agency for Electrification & Energy Services in Rural & Periurban Areas (ANSER), Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Morgan Hillenbrand, Director of Communications, USAID's Engendering Industries program, USA
• Jasper Graf von Hardenberg, CEO, Daystar Power, Nigeria
• Prisca Atieno Ochieng, Operations Manager, Strathmore Energy Research Centre 
• Oluwatosin George,  WREA Mentee, IFC