Events
Toward a Global Low Carbon Transition : What Sustainable Opportunities for Africa?
Despite its marginal contribution to the historical growth in greenhouse gas emissions, the African continent could be one of the most vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change. Beyond adaptation needs, the importance climate change mitigation is now given full recognition in economic development agendas, with the ambition to facilitate leap frogging in emerging economies and avoid worsening current global emission trajectories. Besides, climate action is also an opportunity for Africa to grasp the strong and diverse “climate co-benefits” in terms of economic performance, energy security and quality of life.
Building upon case studies in different sectors and countries, the conference will aim at identifying the low-carbon solutions with the greatest potential in Africa and drawing recommendations on how to scale them up over the short to medium term.
Agenda
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09:00 – 09:15 |
Opening remarks |
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09:15 – 10:45 |
Greening the Electricity Mix: Opportunities & Obstacles in Northern Africa Chair - Mr. Marc-Antoine Eyl-Mazzega, Director, Center for Energy, Ifri Speakers - Mr. Angelo Guardo, Senior Program Manager, Res4Med - Mr. Tarik Bourquouquou, Senior Project Manager Business Development, Masen |
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10:45 – 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00 – 12:30 |
Solutions for Access to Electricity in Sub Saharan Africa Chair - Ms. Rim Berahab, Economist, OCP Policy Center Speakers - Mr. Marc-Antoine Eyl-Mazzega, Director, Center for Energy, Ifri |
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14:00– 14:30 |
Keynote speech: : Low Carbon Energy transition in Africa |
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14:30– 15:45 |
Regional economic potentials from renewable energy sources: fueling industrial growth, economic development and energy security Chair Mr. Saïd Mouline, Managing Director, AMEE Speakers - Mr. Cédric Philibert, Senior Analyst, Renewable Energy Division, International Energy Agency |
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15:45– 16:00 |
Coffee Break |
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16:00– 17:30 |
Smart and Sustainable Cities in Africa Chair - Ms. Carole Mathieu, Head of EU Energy & Climate Policies, Center for Energy, Ifri Speakers - Ms. Hilaire Babin, Vice President, Utilities to Industries and District Cooling, Engie Africa |
Speakers
Saïd Mouline
CEO, Moroccan Agency for Energy Efficiency AMEE
Said Mouline est un Ingénieur spécialisé dans les secteurs de la Protection de l’Environnement, diplômé de l’Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble et de l’Université de Pennsylvanie à Philadelphie. Ancien Conseiller en Développement Durable du Président de l’OCP et du Ministre de l’Energie et des Mines en 1989, il a intégré le Centre de Développement des Energies Renouvelables (CDER) en 1992 en tant que Directeur Scientifique et Technique. Said mouline a également occupé plusieurs postes de responsabilité au sein du groupe Finance.com, toujours dans le domaine de l’Energie et de l’Environnement, et a été chargé du programme QualitAir à la Fondation Mohammed VI pour la protection de l’Environnement. Nommé par sa Majesté le Roi Mohammed VI, Directeur Général du CDER le 06 ...
Rim Berahab
Senior Economist
Rim Berahab is Senior Economist at the Policy Center for the New South, which she joined in 2014. She is currently working on themes related to energy issues and their impacts on economic growth and long-term development. Her research areas also cover trade and regional integration challenges in Africa. Previously, she has also worked on questions related to gender inequalities in the labor market of North African countries. Rim spent three months at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in 2016, in the Commodities Unit of the Research Department. She holds a State Engineering degree from the National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (INSEA).
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Badr Ikken
CEO, IRESEN
Mr. Badr Ikken received an engineer degree in mechanical engineering and industrial production & solar systems from the Berlin Institute of Technology. He wrote a thesis on production technologies of hard materials.
During 8 years, he worked in the Department for Machining Technology of the Institute for Machine Tools and Factory Management (IWF) in Berlin, first as a research associate, then as a project manager. In the Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (Fraunhofer IPK), he served as leader for several industrial projects involving companies such as Siemens Power Generation, INA Schaeffler, Saint-Gobain Diamantwerkzeuge and SGL Carbon. Between 2008 and 2010, Mr. Ikken served as CTO of the multinational company Lunos-Raumluftsysteme. During this period ...
Mohammed Bouramtane
Director of Development and Industrial divisions, ONEE
Mr. Bouramtane is the Director of Development Division at ONEE. He supervises the strategy and planning of the power sector. He is also in charge of the development and the commissioning of both energy generation and electricity transmission projects, such as the Integrated Wind Project of 850 MW, the electric transportation network of 400 kV, and the 1,350MW coal-fired power plant in Safi.
Mr. Bouramtane is also the Director of Industrial Division at ONEE, where he is in charge of the production, transmission and distribution of power.
Mr. Bouramtane has an extensive experience in the operation of electric power plants.
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Angelo Guardo
Senior Project Manager, Res4Med
Mr. Guardo graduated cum laude in Electrical Engineering in 2006 at the “Università di Catania". He started his career in Research and then he moved to the public sector as inspector in construction sites and commercial buildings. He joined Enel in 2008 as Project Manager dealing with medium and large PV plants. In January 2012 he moved in The United States with the role of Engineering Project Manager to follow solar projects both under development and under construction all over Central America and USA. In January 2015, he joined the O&M department as Head of technical support for PV plants within the global perimeter of Enel Green Power. Since 2017 he is Senior Project Manager within RES4MED association, responsible for the activities of the association in the MENA regio ...
Adil Khamis
Executive Vice President, Business Development, Nareva
Mr. Khamis is the Executive Vice President in charge of Business Development of Nareva.
Nareva is a developer, investor, co-owner and operator a portfolio of power generation and water infrastructure plants in Morocco. Nareva owns a portfolio of power assets with an aggregate capacity of 3 350 MW and an investment value in excess of USD 5 Billion.
Adil khamis has more than 12 years’ executive managerial experience in the development of large scale power and water infrastructure projects and has successfully contributed to the closing of large transactions, including:
• The first merchant Moroccan wind portfolio of 500 MW;
• The 300 MW Tarfaya wind IPP project (the largest wind farm in Africa) and
• The Safi 1400 MW IPP coal fired project
• The award of the 850 MW IPP Wind I ...
Jan Pieter Cools
CEO, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy Morocco
Based in Morocco since 2011, Jan Pieter Cools is currently CEO of Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy in Morocco. Prior to the merger of Siemens Wind Power and Gamesa in 2017, he was active in the Siemens Energy division as regional manager for the Mediterranean area in Siemens Wind
Power since 2008.
Before 2008, Mr. Cools was regional manager for Africa – Middle-East for Siemens Elasa in Spain and for Asia-Pacific in Singapore. He also held several management positions in the Telecommunications Division of the Siemens organization.
Besides, he worked as consultant for European Commission projects defining implementation scenarios for broadband telecommunications networks.
Born in 1960, Jan Pieter Cools studied economics and business science at University of Louvain, Belgium and ...
Hilaire Babin
Vice President, Utilities to Industries and District Cooling, Engie Africa
Hilaire Babin is the ENGIE Africa Vice President for the Utilities for industries and District Cooling Network. Hilaire holds a master’s in Electrical Engineering and a master of Science in Mechanical Engineering. He started his career as a Project Manager with HMS (Cruises Ship Yard’s subcontractor) in Italy. In 2004, Hilaire started his own business in renewable energy in France. Having sold his business, Hilaire held a position as project manager for a heat pump manufacturer.
In 2013 Hilaire joined Engie Cofely and subsequently held different positions as Project Director on the District heating and cooling business. He was in charge to develop solutions to deliver utilities for the industry and the district heating and cooling Networks in Normandy (France) and in La Reunio ...
Marc-Antoine Eyl-Mazzega
Director, Centre for Energy, Ifri , France
Marc-Antoine Eyl-Mazzega is the Director of the Center for Energy & Climate at the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri), having joined Ifri in 2017. His research interests include low carbon technologies, oil and gas markets, producers and rentier states, International Oil Companies and National Oil Companies, and the European Green Deal. Prior to joining Ifri, he spent six years at the International Energy Agency (IEA), notably as Russia & Sub-Saharan Africa Programme Manager where he conducted oil and gas market analyses and was responsible for institutional relations with these countries and regions. He held various other positions, such as at the Robert Schuman Foundation, being in charge of a Ukraine observatory.
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Catherine Mantel
Vice President Business Development, Terrawatt Initiative
Catherine Mantel graduated from HEC in 1976 and owns a master’s degree in the Economics of Energy (French Petroleum Institute). She spent most of her career focusing on the development and structuring of international projects in emerging countries, specifically in Central Europe and CIS countries. She worked in the banking sector (Credit Lyonnais, CA-CIB) managing asset backed finance activities and key accounts coverage for 19 years. Later, she joined Gaz de France in 2002 with board responsibilities in joint ventures between GDF and Gazprom. With GDFSUEZ/ENGIE, she had the opportunity to work with electricity generation, environment and service business lines.
She is fluent in English and Russian and has a working knowledge of Spanish and German. To add to her truly inte ...
Clélie Nallet
Research Fellow, Center for Africa Studies, Ifri
Clélie Nallet is a Research Fellow with the Center for Africa Studies at Ifri. Her research focuses on African socio-economic transformations and urban dynamics. She holds a PhD in political science from Sciences Po Bordeaux, where she devoted her thesis to the study of Ethiopian “middle classes”.
She has conducted numerous surveys on living standards and lifestyles, mainly in Addis Ababa, Niamey, Kinshasa and Abidjan.
Clélie is also an Expert on issues related to the private sector in developing economies and was Deputy Editor in chief of Private Sector & Development magazine.
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Carole Mathieu
Head of EU Energy & Climate Policies, Center for Energy, Ifri
Carole Mathieu is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Energy of the French Institute for International Relations (Ifri). Her research areas primarily cover climate change policies and the transformation of energy systems, European energy policy and security of gas supply. Prior to joining the Ifri Centre for Energy, she was an analyst at the French Energy Regulatory Commission (2010-2014). She has been actively involved in defining and defending the positions of the French regulator in the discussions with European Institutions, network and infrastructure operators and market players. Her work focused on the harmonization of European gas network and market rules and on questions relating to energy security of supply of the European Union. She has regularly conducted training s ...
Cédric Philibert
Senior Analyst, Renewable Energy Division, International Energy Agency
Cédric Philibert is a senior analyst in the Renewable Energy Division of the International Energy Agency (IEA). He leads the division’s policy analysis on technologies, and works on renewable energy for hydrogen, industry and fuels.
He authored the IEA renewable energy Technology Roadmaps on Concentrating Solar Power (2010), Hydropower (2012), Wind (2013), Solar Thermal Electricity (2014) and Solar Photovoltaics (2014). Mr. Philibert also wrote the 2011 IEA report Solar Energy Perspectives, and a report on Renewable Energy for Industry (2017). With a background in climate change, Mr. Philibert co-authored the IEA publications Beyond Kyoto (2002), and Act Locally Trade Globally (2005).
A journalist by training, Mr. Philibert served as an advisor to the French Environment Mini ...
Tarik Bourquouquou
Senior Project Manager Business Development, Masen
Mr. Tarik Bourquouquou is Senior Project Manager in Business Development and previously Planning Manager for Construction and Commissionning of Solar Power plants and Infrastructures in Masen (Moroccan Agency for sustainable Energy).
Mr. Bourquouquou has been Masen’s Planning Manager for Power Plants and Infrastructures since 2014 and recently joined the Business Development team.
He took part in all Masen projects developed so far (Noor Ouarzazate I, II, III, IV, Laâyoune and Boujdour).
Before joining Masen, he spent two years as a business intelligence Engineer in France working in Capgemini for major Telecommunication companies like Orange, France Telecom and Bouygues Telecom. He then worked eight years in the Oil and Gas construction and procurement in Saipem (ENI) for maj ...
