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CBC Leaders & Experts
Welcome to the CBC Leaders & Experts Center. Here, you can learn more about our esteemed Leaders and access their contact information, request their services, or schedule an appointment with them. Starting from September 2024, we are excited to offer you the opportunity to browse through our trusted network of CBC Associated Experts and CBI Mentors & Lecturers.
Featured Leaders & Experts
CBC Honorary Chair for the Middle East
Paddy Padmanathan
Board Member
ACWA Power
CBC Co-Chair ofStorageVersity Hub (In Charge of North America)
Andreas Fornwald
CEO
Rebirth Capital Partners
CBC Chair for Middle East
Cornelius Matthes
CEO
Dii Desert Energy
Investor in emission free technologies
CBC Co-Chair of Clean Hydrogen Hub (In Charge of Off-takers Ecosystem)
Dr. Stefan Kaufmann
Senior Adviser
World Energy GH2
Member of the German Parliament; Former Innovation Commissioner for Green Hydrogen at the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
CBC Co-Chair of R&D, Manufacturing & Supply
Chain Hub (In Charge of China)
George Yang
Chairman & CEO
Shanghai GoldenRidge CleanTech
CBC Visionary Adviser
Hans-Josef Fell
President
Energy Watch Group
German MP 1998-2013; Co-author of the German Renewable Energy Sources Act 2000
Elite Member
Maggie Chen
CleanTech & Sustainability Passionate
CBC Honorary Chair of Empowering Women Hub
Mary O'Donnell "CleanTech Mama"
Founder & President
Clean Power Inc
Impact investor
CBC Co-Chair of Clean Hydrogen Hub (In Charge of Geopolitics & Diplomacy)
Mikaa Mered
Adjunct lecturer on hydrogen markets, diplomacy and geopolitics
Sciences Po
(The Paris Institute of Political Studies)
Elite Member
Paris Ziv Ong
Director
CleanTech Business Experts
CBC Co-Chair of StorageVersity Hub (In Charge of China)
Pingyang Wang
SVP HyperStrong International / GM EMEA Region
Beijing HyperStrong Technology
Executive Director Kingdom Energy System
CBC Honorary Chair for Turkey
Prof. Dr. Şener OKTİK
Board Member at Board of Directors
Sisecam and Clean Energy Foundation
Senior Lecturer/Researcher at Kadir Has University; Honorary Chairman of Turkish Photovoltaic Industries (GENSED)
CBC Elite Member
Rajneesh Khattar
Senior Group Director
Informa Markets
"Father" of Renewable Energy India Expo
CBC Elite Member
Stephan Dörrschuck
CEO
Heinrich Kopp GmbH
CBC Visionary Advisor
Tony Seba
Co-Founder
RethinkX
World-renowned thought leader, author, speaker, educator, angel investor and Silicon Valley entrepreneur
CBC Co-Chair of Empowering Women Hub (In Charge of Europe)
Andrea Bodenhagen
Director Marketing Europe
Sunova Solar
CBC Membership Manager Middle East
Sibi Vetha Raj
Business Development Manager
Qi Energy
CBC Chair for South East Asia
Alexis Issaharoff
Chief Renewable Energy
Jubaili
CBC Chair for Saudi Arabia
Amin Al Yaquob
CEO
GCC Association for Renewable Energy & Sustainability
Advisor, Local content at Renewable Energy Project Development Office (REPDO), Ministry of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources, Saudi Arabia
CBC Co-Chair of CleanTech Leaders Under30 Hub
Ankit Doshi
Director
Waree Ess
CBC Co-Chair for Europe
Bruce Douglas
CEO
Global Renewables Alliance
Former Co-Chair of Global Solar Council & COO at SolarPower Europe
CBC Co-Chair of StorageVersity Hub (In Charge of Europe)
Daniel Thielking
Sales Manager EMEA
AMPT
CBC Chair for Burkina Faso & CBC Chair for Africa of Empowering Women Hub
Diane Stéphnanie T. Sanhouidi Hounsou
Executive Manager
GCINTER SA
CBC Co-Chair of Financial & Investor Hub
Dr. Claas Helmke
Founder & CEO
newtrail.capital
CBC Chair for South Korea
Dr. Ki-Hae Yang
CEO
Segi Solar Environment
CBC Visionary Adviser
Dr. Winfried Hoffmann
Owner
Applied Solar Expertise - ASE
former CEO and MD of RWE Solar GmbH and RWE SCHOTT Solar GmbH; Former President EPIA: (European Photovoltaic Industry Association", today SolarPower Europe”)
CBC Premium Member
Frank Qiao
Co-Founder and Vice President
Growatt
CBC Honorary Chair for Italy
Gianni Silvestrini
Scientific Director
Kyoto Club
Former General Director at the Italian Ministry of the Environment
Premium Member
Jacky Mao
Director
The House of Roosevelt
CBC Premium Member
Jesse Lau
President of APAC & MEA Region
SOFAR
CBC Co-Chair of Financial & Investor Hub
Karim Megherbi
Executive Director
EPDA
Director Transaction Advisory at Dii Desert Energy
Premium Member
Lin Jianwei
Chairman
Jolywood
CBC StorageVersity Hub Member
Mani Khurana
Senior Energy Specialist and Task Team Leader
World Bank
Head of the World Bank’s Battery Storage Program in India
CBC Co-ordinator of
The World CleanTech & Hydrogen R&D Conclave
Mark Mirza
Project Leader
Fraunhofer ISC
CBC Chair for Mali
Moctar Toure
Founder & CEO
SMART’ÉLEC & PARTNERS
Former Special Advisor to The President of Mali & President of CREE (Power and Water Utilities' Regulation Commission)
CBC Chair for Morocco; CBC Co-Chair of Clean Water Hub
Mostafa Boulal
CEO
COREAS HIGH-TECH
CBC Chair of Sustainable Art Initiative
Najoua Ajjour
Head of Project, Creative Designer, Painter
CleanTech Business Institute Lecturer
Prof. John Perlin
Professor at Physics Department
UC Santa Barbara
CBC Chair of Utilities & Energy Companies Hub
Ruggero Arico
Head of International Institutional Affairs
Enel Group (CEO Office)
Vice-President at Confindustria Assafrica and Mediterraneo
Relations Manager Africa
Stella Wangari
Relations Manager
CleanTech Business Institute
CBC CleanTech Leaders Under30 Hub Member
Subrahmanyam Pulipaka
CEO
NSEFI - National Solar Energy Federation of India
Founder Chairman India Africa Youth Energy Forum
CBC Co-Chair of Electric & Hydrogen Mobility Hub (In Charge of India)
Uday Narang
Founder
Omega Seiki Mobility
Full Member
Dr. Kostyantyn Krasovsky
Administrative Director
Innovation Basalt Technology
CBC Vice-Chair for Latin America
Jorge Visoso
Sales Manager for Latin America
GoodWe
CBC Co-Chair of Empowering Women Hub
Simay Akar
CEO and Founder
AK Energy Consulting
CBC Chair of Clean Hydrogen Hub
Adamo Screnci
Vice President - H2, CCUS, bio & eFuels, Plastic Recycling
NextChem
Hydrogen Pioneer, Expert & Entrepreneur
CBC Honorary Chair for Brazil
Antonio Celso de Abreu Junior
Solar Pioneer in Brazil, Cleanvestree Expert
Former Director of the Department of Social Policies and Universalization of Access to Energy in the Ministry of Mines and Energy, Brazil
CBC Chair for China
Daniel Huang
Founder & President
GoodWe
CBC Chair for Italy
Enrico Carniato
Group Deputy General Manager - Global Finance and Business Development
Upsolar Group
CBC Chair for Cambodia
H.R.H Prince of Cambodia Narithipong Norodom
Business Expert & Advisor
CBC Co-Chair of Clean Hydrogen Hub
(In Charge of China Relations)
Justin Gu
General Manager
GF Hydrogen Europe
CBC Co-Chair for Africa
Mansour Diagne
Director Sales in MEA
Univergy
CBC Co-Chair of Utilities & Energy Companies Hub (In Charge of Europe)
Matthias Altieri
Head of Project Development - Member of the Management Board
one2zero - green energy solutions
CBC Chair of Bioenergy & Waste to Energy Hub
Murat Aydemir
Managing Director MENA
px Engineering
CBC Global Partnership with Hyvolution
Pierre Buchou
Manager Hyvolution
GL Events
CBC Chair of CleanTech StartUP Hub
Prof. Anis Jouini
CEO
ECM Greentech
Board Member at ESMC
CBC Chair of R&D, Manufacturing & Supply Chain Hub; Chair of the World CleanTech Awards
Prof. Eicke R. Weber
Vice-Chairman
European Solar Manufacturing Council
Former Director, Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg; Professor Emeritus, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley
CBC Chair for Australia & Oceania
Rami Fedda
Co-Founder & Supply Director
Solar Juice Pty
Co-Chair of the World CleanTech StartUPs Awards
Thomas Altmann
Executive Vice President - Innovation & New Technology
ACWA Power
CBC Co-Chair of Smart Energy Hub
Zouhair Kefi
Director Division Energy & Home Automation
Heinrich Kopp GmbH
CBC Co-Chair of Empowering Women Hub (In Charge of the Middle East)
Armita Bayat
General Manager MENA
TEK Solar
CBC Full Member
Youssef El Barrah
Energy Efficiency Project Expert
CBC Co-Chair of Clean Hydrogen Hub (In Charge of Financial & Investor Ecosystem)
Alicia Eastman
Co-founder and Board Director
InterContinental Energy
Host of “Everything About Hydrogen”
CBC Financial & Investor Hub - Chair of South Asia Chapter
Amit Jain
Senior Energy Specialist
World Bank
CBC Co-Chair of International MarCom Directors Task Force
Apollo Chai
International Marketing Director
GoodWe
CBC Vice-Chair for South Korea
Chang-Hoon Suh
Chairman
Woosuk University
President, Jeonbuk Daily Newspaper Company
CBC Vice-Chair for France
David Mabille
Founder
MABILLE & PARTNERS
Premium Member
Diogo Ladvocat Negrão
Partner Low Carbon Economy - ESG
Carbon Asset Management
Capital Markets, Climate Change, Sustainable Finance, TCFD, ESG, Low Carbon Economy
CBC Visionary Advisor
Dr. David Renné
Founder
Dave Renne Renewables
ISES Immediate Past President USA
CBC Morocco
Co-ordinator of the Institutional Relations
Dr. Mohammed Choukri Belkadi
Academic Lecturer, Expert & Entrepreneur in Health and Environmental Sciences
Vice-President in charge of the Green Economy Commission at CGEM for Fez – Meknes
CBC Chair for New Zealand
Eden Jahnke
Founder & Director
WORLDLING
Chief of Staff, Clean Disruption
CBC Chair for Togo
Germain Essohouna MEBA
President
Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Togo (CCIT) & ECOWAS Countries
Premium Member
Gilles Dossa
President
Group Olouwafemi
CBC Chair for Tunisia & Co-Chair Africa
Jalel Hamila
VP Sales Europe & Middle East
AKCOME
CBC Director Relations South-East Asia
Joanna (Jing Jing) Pang
CleanTech Enterpreuner
CBC Chair for Japan
Kenta Kagikawa
President
Univergy
CBC Vice-Chair for Middle East
Luan Kuqi
Board Member
Nextone Energy Group
CBC Chair for Argentina
Marcelo Alvarez
Secretary & Latam Task Force Coordinator
Global Solar Council
Former President of Argentinean Renewable Energy Chamber and Chief of Solar Energy Commission
CBC Co-Chair for Asia
Mi Yue
Founder
SNEC
Director at NEIAPP (New Energy Industry Association for Asia and the Pacific), Board Member at the Global Solar Council
CBC Co-Chair of CleanTech Architecture & Hospitality Industry Hub (In Charge of Africa)
Mohamed Laarissi
CEO
Obvious Brigade
CBC Chair for Benin & Chair for West Africa
Mozart Hounsou
Founder & CEO
GCINTER SA
VIP Member of West Africa Chamber of Trade and Industries
CBC Visionary Adviser
Paul Van Son
President
Dii Desert Energy
CBC Legal Adviser
Raj Singh Niranjan
Founder
Trans India Law Associates (TILA)
Legal Advisor at International Solar Alliance (ISA)
Premium Member
Sebastian Petretschek
General Manager
TÜV Rheinland Group
CBC Chair for Kenya
Stephen Mwangi
Director
Pathfinder Investments
CBC Financial & Investor Hub - Member of South Asia Chapter
Sunil Dayal
Energy Sector and Climate Finance Expert
World Bank
CBC CleanTech Media Director
Weslei Vianna
Founder
The Content Storytelling Marketing
Co-Chair of CBC Upstream Hub
Goutam Samanta
Head PV Technology
Juniper Green Energy
CBC Chair for Mexico
Miguel Vildosola
Viga Energy Partners
Full Member
Stefan Heyn
Sales Director
Corinex
Managing Director at Green T GmbH & Co. KG
CBC Chair of Hospitality Industry Hub
Agnieszka J. Weryszko
Founder & CEO
Square Venues
CBC Honorary Chair for North America & USA
Charlie Gay "Dr Solar"
Founder
Greenstar Foundation
Former Director of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office
CBC Chair of Utilities & Energy Companies Hub (In Charge of China)
Dr. Jianhui Zhang
CEO
Beijing HyperStrong Technology
Board Member of the US-China Green Energy Council (UCGEC)
CBC Co-Chair of Clean Hydrogen Hub
(In Charge of the Middle East)
Frank Wouters
Senior Vice President
Reliance Industries
Chair, Advisory Board, Dii Desert Energy and MENA Hydrogen Alliance
CBC Co-Chair for Asia
H.R.H Tunku Naquiyuddin
Executive Chairman
ANTAH HealthCare Group
CBC Chair for LATAM & CBC Chair for Brazil
Leonardo Curioni
Founder
SICES Solar
CBC Co-Chair of CleanTech StartUP Hub (In Charge of the EU Funding)
Marie Latour
European Affairs Director
Euro-Funding
CBC Co-Chair for Europe
Michael Bellmer
Managing Director
LTI ReEnergy
CBC Honorary Chair of CleanTech Architecture Hub
Nikos Fintikakis
Professor
International Academy of Architecture (IAA)
CleanTech Architecture Expert; Former Director of UIA (International Union of Architects) ARES Work Program
CBC Honorary Co-Chair of Clean Hydrogen Hub
Pinfang Wu
Chairman
Jiangsu Guofu Hydrogen Energy Equipment Co, Ltd.
"Father of Hydrogen in China"
CBC Honorary Chair of Clean Hydrogen Hub
Prof. Dr. Ad van Wijk
Professor Emeritus of Future Energy Systems
TU Delft
Member of Dii Advisory Board
CBC Visionary Advisor
Prof. Martin Green
Scientia Professor
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Director of the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics
CBC Honorary Chair for India
Shri K.S.Popli
Director
Climate Finance
Former CMD of Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA)
Founder & Vision Streamliner
Tomasz Slusarz
President
CleanTech Business Institute
CBC VP Membership & Partnership
Alicja Slusarz
CBC Secretariat: Vice-President
CleanTech Business Club
CBC Executive Assistant China
Julieta (Junshuang Tao)
CBC Secretariat: Executive Assistant China
CleanTech Business Club
CBC Chair of CleanTech Schools Initiative
Adam Hall
Chief Star Organizer
Million Solar Stars
CBC Supply Chain Relationship Advisor for China
Amanda Zhang
Director of Business Development
Shoals Technologies Group
CBC Co-Chair of Financial and Investor Hub (In Charge of China Relations); Chair of CBC Empowering Women Hub for China
Anastasia (Sun Ru)
CEO
JIAO YANG NEW ENERGY
CBC Premium Member
Barack Baréma Bocoum
Diplomat / Consular Affairs and Communication Officer
The Embassy of Mali in Abu Dhabi
CBC Co-Chair of Under40 Leaders Hub (In Charge of Africa)
Chibunna Ogbonna
Co-Founder
Kiru Energy Limited
Premium Member
Delphine Cherpin
Deputy Manager R&D Communication & Development
CEA-INES (French Solar Energy Institute)
CBC Honorary Chair for North America
Dr. Alex Levran
CEO
EGM inc
Former Global Head of Solar Industry Initiative at ABB Group
CBC Co-Chair for Asia & Chair for India
Dr. Hitesh Doshi
Chairman
Waaree Group
Chairman at All India Solar Industry Association
CBC Chair of StorageVersity Hub & Chair of Empowering Women Hub
Dr. Rashi Gupta "Batterywali"
Managing Director
Vision Mechatronics
CBC Chair for Turkey
Engel Tastan
CEO
GoodWe Turkey
CBC Vice-Chair for Italy & CBC Chair of CleanTech on Emerging Island Countries Task Force
Gianni Chianetta
Founder & Director
Greening the Islands
CEO at Global Solar Council
CBC Chair for Bulgaria
Hayrie Shan
CEO
Euro American Solar
CBC Chair of Financial & Investor Hub
Jean-Pascal Pham-Ba
CEO
Paradigm Partnerships
Secretary General and Spokesperson at Terrawatt Initiative
CBC Co-Chair of Floating CleanTech Hub
Karel de Winter
Director Floating PV
Phelan Energy Group
CBC Chair for Spain
Laura Azpilicueta
European Director ESS Business
AMPACE Technology Limited
CBC Director International Relations LATAM
Lucas Troia
Regional Sales Director
Enphase Energy
CBC Co-Chair of R&D, Manufacturing & Supply
Chain Hub (In Charge of Europe)
Marco Sganga
Technical Director
GF Hydrogen Europe
Premium Member
Michael Frenette
CFO
Clean Power Inc
CBC Honorary Chair for Australia
Monica Oliphant
Research Scientist and Renewables & Environment Consultant
Past President of ISES (International Solar Energy Society)
CBC Co-Chair for Bulgaria
(In Charge of the Balkan Region Relations)
Mustafa Shan
Non-Executive Director
Euro American Solar
Premium Member
Pierre Verlinden
Founder & Managing Director
Amrock Pty
Former Chief Scientist and State Key Laboratory Vice-Chair at Trina Solar
Premium Member
Ron Sheng
Vice-President International Sales & Services
GoodWe
CBC Co-Chair of Utilities & Energy Companies Hub
Soufiane Naime
Business Development Middle East Oil & Gas Market (Energy Transition)
Bureau Veritas Group
CBC Honorary Co-Chair for Australia
Steve Blume
Secretary (Immediate Past President)
Smart Energy Council
CBC Co-Chair of CleanTech StartUP Hub
Thomas Körn
Founder & CEO
water stuff & sun GmbH
CBC Chair of Upstream Hub
Zineb Seghrouchni
Hydrogen Origination Manager
John Cockerill Group
Full Member
Jason Sun
General Manager Business Development
Total Envision
CBC Chair of Sustainable Clothing Initiative
Pieter Petros
Founder
Pieter Petros Institute
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