ADSW 2023 Speakers

Chairman, Global Infrastructure Partners

Acting Division Director - Social Entrepreneurship, Authority of Social Contribution - Ma'an

Chairman Youthinkgreen

Director of Partnerships and Investment Department, Ministry of Industry & Advanced Technology (MOIAT)

Chief Executive Officer, Emirates Global Aluminium United Arab Emirates 55. Sonja Caymaz, Group Editor, FT Longitude, United Kingdom

Partner, McKinsey & Company

Board Member & Director, Hydrogen Refueling Services

Managing Director & Partner, BCG

Advisory Council, The African Climate Foundation (ACF)

Environmental Activist and Actor

Investment Manager, Foresight Group

Associate Director, BCG

President of ATHS-MBZ Student Council

Acting Chief Executive Officer, Masdar City, United Arab Emirates

Chief Executive Officer, OCI & Fertiglobe, United Arab Emirates

Chief Executive Officer, Emirates Development Bank, United Arab Emirates

Co-Founder & CEO, KarmSolar, Egypt

FoodTech Challenge Team, United Arab Emirates

Vice President for Upstream Innovation & Technology, ADNOC, United Arab Emirates • Danny Rice, Incoming CEO, NET Power, United States

Founder of Mahaya’s

Program Specialist, Authority of Social Contribution - Ma'an

Chief Executive Officer, Hassan Allam Holding

VP Europe & Middle East, Carbon Engineering, Canada

Special Advisor on Climate Action to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Vice President, Europe, Breakthrough Energy, United States

Global Climate Policy Director, Wildlife Works

Lead, Environment program, Bloomberg Philanthropies

CEO and Co-Founder, Ohmium International

Special Envoy to the Prime Minister on Investment and Financial Services, Government of Barbados

Energy, Resources & Industrials Leader, Deloitte Middle East

Managing Editor & Anchor, Connect the World, CNN

Special Advisor, Africa Director, The Climate Champions

Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, United States

Director of Policy, Capture6, United States

Energy Policy Executive Director, the Abu Dhabi Department of Energy (DoE)

Director (Technical), Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd. (IREDA)

Managing Director & Partner, BCG

Founder & Managing Director, Meld Energy

Chief Executive Officer, Dii Desert Energy

Secretary General, CREIA

Chief Executive Officer, NET Power, United States

Founder @HeroGo

CEO, Wateroam

Inaugural Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy and co-Director of the Energy and Environment Concentration, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia Universitmoha

Cabinet Secretary, Energy and Petroleum, Kenya

COO of Archireef

President & CEO, Bezos Earth Fund

CEO, GreenLight Biosciences, United States

CEO & Co-Founder, H2GO Power & Advisor to the BeyondNetZero, United Kingdom

Vice President, Hydrogen, Varo Energy

CEO, Southbridge Investments, G20 Chair of MDB Capital Adequacy Review, Tanzania

Founder and Executive Chair, EAT Foundation, Norway

UN Climate Change High Level Champion

Co-Founder & CEO Seramic Materials

Director of AgriTech and Research & Development, Silal

Senior Vice President, Research and Development and Professor of Practice, Khalifa University of Science and Technology

Senior Advisor to the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Central Bank of Nigeria

CNN

Partner, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

Director of Planning, IRENA

Marketing Manager plug & play

Executive Director of Generation, TAQA and Board Member, Masdar, United Arab Emirates

CEO of Key Technologies

Director – UAE Industries, Mubadala

Executive Vice President for the European Green Deal, European Commission

Deputy Director-General, IRENA

Senior Manager, Business Development, Masdar

Founder & CEO of The Food Engineer

Founder & CEO, Octopus Energy Group, United Kingdom

Founder & CIO, A/O PropTech, United Kingdom

CEO, Mamotest

Head of Hydrogen, Verbund

Senior Vice President, New Energies and Hydrogen, ADNOC

Under Secretary General & Special Envoy to the Horn of Africa, United Nations

Senior Manager, Research and Policy, UICCA, United Arab Emirates

RIC-2D Director, Khalifa University

Minister for Energy Transition, France

Executive Director for the Terrestrial and Marine Biodiversity Sector, EAD, United Arab Emirates

Director General and Special Representative of COP28, United Arab Emirates

Minister of Environment and Energy, Republic of Costa Rica

Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy, The Arab Republic of Egypt

Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Jordan

Director General, Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO)

Minister of Energy and Mining, Republic of Serbia

Chairman, Abu Dhabi Department of Energy

Secretary General, Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC)

Minister of State for Environment, Climate Change and Technology, Republic of Maldives

Former President of Iceland

Minister of State for International Cooperation, United Arab Emirates

Managing Director & CEO, DEWA, United Arab Emirates

Minister of Foreign Affairs, COP27 President, Egypt

Minister of State to the Federal Chancellor, Federal Chancellery, Federal Republic of Germany

Undersecretary for Energy & Petroleum Affairs, Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, United Arab Emirates

Hon'ble Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, India

State Secretary, Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning, Republic of Slovenia

President of the Republic of Seychelles

President of Strategy and Sustainability, TotalEnergies, France

Regional CEO, Siemens UAE and the Middle East,, Germany

President & CEO, UAE Independent Climate Change Accelerators (UICCA)

Minister of Energy, Ghana

KBW Group of Companies

Company Architect, Riversimple

Former Student at Starehe Girls Centre & School, 2017 Global High Schools Winner

CEO Graphene@Manchester

CEO FortyGuard

Chairman, BNP Paribas, France

The Platform

Founder & CEO, Rux Energy

Head of CSR and Sustainability Middle East and Africa, BNP-Paribas

Journalist, Reuters

CEO, Levidian

Vice President Africa, GEAPP

Chief Strategy & Sustainability Officer, Emirates Foundation

CEO, Stakeholders Engagement, Global Carbon Council

CEO, Power For All

Founder and CEO, Envision Group, China

Director of Business Development & Sustainability, Jinko Solar Co., Ltd

Director of Sales & Business Development, H2Greem Global Solutions

VP Sustainable Energy Systems, Siemens Energy

Chief Executive Officer, Global Infrastructure Hub

Executive Director, H2Global Stiftung

CEO, Masdar Arlington Energy, United Kingdom

Co-Founder & CPO of Solva

Chief Executive Officer, Masdar, United Arab Emirates

Executive Director of Green Hydrogen, Masdar

Founder and Executive Director, LEDAR, Bangladesh

Founder and Executive Director, Green Girls Organisation

Founder Digital Energy

Head of Business Development, ARTsolar

Co-Founder & CTO Edraak Systems

Ivory Coast Minister of State for Women, Family and Children

Global Head, Offshore Wind Power Business, JERA

Business Development Manager, Octopus Hydrogen

Chief Executive Officer, Impact Hydrogen

Group Chief Executive Officer, HSBC, United Kingdom

Africa and Middle East Lead, Sustainable Finance, Standard Chartered Bank

Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Hydrogen Refueling Solutions

Founder and CEO, Earth Space Technical Ecosystem Enterprises (ESTEE)

Co-Founder, FlyH2 Aeospace

Head of Sustainable Finance Solutions (ESG), Bloomberg L.P., United States

Application Manager, GEIC

President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Vice President of Development at the Institute for Sustainable Communities

Distinguished Professor of Marine Science, King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia

Director Division Hydrogen Technologies, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems

Owner & Chairperson, Ramsco, Egypt

Founder of Solumar

Mayor of Braga, Portugal

ME of Vita Virtues

Founder & CEO HydroArtPod

Vice President, Hydrogen Business, Bloom Energy

Executive Director of Strategic Affairs at the Executive Affairs Authority, United Arab Emirates

Co-CEO, Investcorp, Bahrain

Director, Sustainable Infrastructure (Middle East & Africa), Johnson Controls, United States

Executive Director, The African Climate Foundation

Global Leader - The Climate Pledge, Amazon, United States

Secretary General, Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet

Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Climate Action and Just Transition

Secretary General, International Desalination Association

His Majesty's Trade Commissioner for the Middle East and Pakistan at the Department for International Trade

Executive Secretary, UNFCCC

Group Editor, FT Longitude, United Kingdom

President and General Manager, 1PointFive International, United Kingdom

Head of Sustainable Buildings Section, Abu Dhabi City Municipality

CEO, Juicy Marbles, Slovenia

Food & Agriculture Systems Youth Fellow (2022), Climate Champions Team

Chief Executive Officer, Japan Cooperation Center for Petroleum and Sustainable Energy (JCCP)

CEO, Space Habitat

Co-Founder of Volts

President of Middle East & Africa Zone, Schneider Electric, France

President, Ally Power

CEO Verofax Limited

Vice President for Africa, Rockefeller Foundation

Co-Founder & CMO Green Future Project

Co-Founder Mruna

Chief Executive Officer, World Energy Council

Director-General, World Health Organisation (WHO)

CEO and Founding Partner, onepoint5

President and CEO, Siemens Energy AG and President and CEO of Siemens Gas and Power Management GmbH

Chief Executive Officer, Standard Chartered UAE

UN Climate Change High Level Champion for Egypt, COP27 and UN Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda

President, Environmental Defense Fund, United States

President, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)

President, Constitutional Council, France

Founder Chair, Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)

Chief Sustainability Officer, GE, United States

Chief Executive Officer, Baker Hughes, United States

Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, United Arab Emirates

Minister of State for Foreign Trade, UAE

Director, Reaching Last Mile

Head of Outreach & Stakeholder Relations, Masdar

CEO, PepsiCo Middle East

UAE Youth Delegate to the United Nations & Future Sustainability Leader, Y4S

Director - Environment Policy, Regulation and Climate Change, Environment Agency of Abu Dhabi

Climate Justice Advocate & Host and Producer, Hali Hewa Podcast

VP Sales, Dendra Systems

Quality Control Chemist, Egyptian Canadian for Advanced Industry

Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Infinity Power

Director Energy Eurasia, Middle East & Africa, Sustainable Infrastructure Group, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Government Affairs Manager

Asset Manager GCC, Abu Dhabi Energy Company (TAQA)

Director – Education and Culture, Expo City Dubai

Chief Executive Officer, Marubeni Middle East & Africa Power Limited

UNICEF Youth Advocate

Senior HR Manager MENAT and Global Organizational & Talent Development Leader, GE

Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

Analyst, Ne'ma Initiative

Founder and CEO, BryceTech

Ambassador for Climate Change, Canada

CEO and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All and Co-Chair of UN-Energy

Director, Amazon Climate Pledge Fund

Director for Policy and Partnerships, Hydrogen Council

Chief Strategy Officer, Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies

Head of Division ‘Funding Instruments and Hydrogen Initiatives’, German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action

Head of Bilateral Energy and Climate Cooperation Division and Hydrogen Initiatives, German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK)

First Undersecretary for Strategic Planning, Performance Follow-up and International Cooperation, Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy, Egypt

Head of Business Development - UAE, Green Hydrogen, Masdar

Chairman, Faseel

Senior Fellow at the Posterity Institute & Former Director General of the Executive Office of HH Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Ruler of Dubai

Chief Comercial Officer, Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies

Managing Director, E Treanor Media

Co-founder and CTO, Anghami

CEO of Infrastructure & Utilities Subfund, The Sovereign Fund of Egypt

CEO – Africa, Middle East and South America AMESA, PepsiCo, United States

Author of NetzeroCityBook & Head of Innovation and ESG, AECOM Middle East and Africa

Director of Portfolio Emirtization, Mubadala

SVP Hydrogen and Carbon Capture & Storage, bp

Senior Vice President, Reliance Industries Limited

Managing Director, Port of Amsterdam International

Student, American University of Sharjah

UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for COP27

Undersecretary of the Abu Dhabi Department of Energy (DoE)

Minister of Climate Change and Environment, United Arab Emirates

Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy, The Republic of Tunisia

Minister of Energy, The Republic of Azerbaijan

COP28 UN Climate Change High-Level Champion, United Arab Emirates

Minister of State for Youth Affairs, United Arab Emirates

Assistant Undersecretary for Electricity, Water and Future Energy, Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, United Arab Emirates

Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operation Officer, Green Climate Fund

CEO, Greenbelt Energy & IRENA Youth Delegate

Chairman of Hopium & Former French Minister for Transport

Climate Change Specialist, UNICEF Paraguay

European Commissioner for Energy, European Commission

CEO Digital Solutions, DNV

Director, Environmental Outreach, Environmental Information, Science & Outreach Management, EAD

Founder and CEO, The Learning Future

Deputy Director of Programs, Dubai Cares

Chief Executive Officer, TES Hydrogen for Life

Associate Professor of Linguistics, Department of Arabic and Translation Studies, American University of Sharjah

Senior Inspection Engineer, Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation

Climate Advocate, Journalist and Socialpreneur

Research Fellow - Energy, Climate Change, and Sustainable Development, Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy

Managing Partner, Climate Innovation Capital

Director of Energy, Bezos Earth Fund

UN Climate Change High-Level Champion, COP26, United Kingdom

Director – Data Operations, GE Gas Power

Director, Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning & Professor of Information Systems and Business Analytics, American University of Sharjah

Head of Climate Negotiations, The UAE Special Envoy for Climate Change

Founder and CEO, Orbillion Bio

Leader MidEast & North Africa Energy & Commodities, Bloomberg News, Dubai

OBE FREng FRS, Dean of Engineering, Imperial College London

TV Anchor & Event Host

Future Sustainability Leader, Y4S

Head of Sustainability, American University of Sharjah

Senior Architect (LEED), dar

CEO and Co-founder, Seafood Souq

Director of Hydrogen Valleys, Impact Hydrogen

Partner and Founder, Soma Mater

Urban and Transport Planner, University of Warwick

Rotating Equipment Engineer & IRENA Youth Delegate

Deputy Mayor, Huon Valley Council

Director, Energy Financial Solutions, Policy & Regulations, African Development Bank

Managing Partner, Cranmore Partners

Director of Partnerships in EMEA, Coursera