A former Chief Executive Officer of the Volta River Authority, Mr Kweku Awotwi, will on Tuesday, June 20, 2023, chair a Ministerial Roundtable discussion on Energy Transition at the 25th Africa Energy Forum to be hosted in Kenya, East Africa.
The Ministerial Roundtable discussion will focus on the theme: ‘The Just Energy Transition -How Far Can Africa Go’.
It will feature Daniel Schroth, Director, Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency, AfDB, and Honourable Davis Chirchir, Cabinet Secretary for Energy & Petroleum, Republic of Kenya, H.E. Honourable Dr. Nobuhle Nkabane, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Mineral Resources & Energy – Republic of South Africa, H.E Honourable Dr Eng. Habtamu Itefa Geleta, Minister of Water & Energy – Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and H.E. Honourable Bruno Kapandji, Président’s Chargé de Mission – Agency for the Development & Promotion of the Grand Inga Project (ADPI-RDC), Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Others are H.E. Honourable Oswald Séverin Mayounou, Minister of Energy & Hydraulic Resources – Gabonese Republic , H.E. Honourable Dr. Ruth Nankabirwa Ssentamu, Minister of Energy & Mineral Development – Republic of Uganda, H.E. Honourable Ibrahim Matola, Minister of Energy – Republic of Malawi, H.E. Honourable Gervacio Engonga Mba Nfumu, Minister of Power & Renewable Energy – Republic of Equatorial Guinea and H.E. Honourable Antonio Oburu Ondo, Minister of Mines & Hydrocarbons – Republic of Equatorial Guinea.
The rest are H.E. Honourable Abdoulie Jobe, Minister of Petroleum & Energy – Republic of The Gambia, H.E. Honourable Adelino Cardoso, Minister of Infrastructure, Natural Resources & Environment – Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe and H.E. Honourable Aly Iboura Moussa, Minister of Energy, Water & Hydrocarbons – Union of Comoros
Mr Awotwi has over 20 years of experience working in the power, oil and gas and mining sectors in Ghana and beyond.
He is the co-founder and Director of Cenpower Generation Company, an independent power producer in Ghana.
He is currently the Board Chairman of United Bank for Africa.
Profile of Mr. Kweku Awotwi
Kweku A. Awotwi is currently the Board Chairman of United Bank for Africa (Ghana) Ltd, the Multimedia Group Ltd in Ghana, and the non-profit sports for development organization, Playsoccer Ghana which he co-founded in 1999.
He has been the past Board Chairman of Stanbic Bank (Ghana) Ltd (2012 – 2018), Ghana’s Volta River Authority (2017-2021), and a Board member of several energy and mining organizations across Africa.
An electrical engineer by training, Kweku started out his career designing integrated circuits for ITT and GE/RCA respectively between 1984-1988. He worked for Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation between 1990-1998, where he left as Business Manager of the Primary Aluminum Business Unit; served as Managing Director, Strategic Planning & New Business Development for Ashanti Goldfields Company from 1998-2004; Chief Executive of Ghana’s Volta River Authority (2009-2013); and most recently, Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Tullow Oil plc (UK) and Tullow Ghana Ltd, respectively from 2018- 2020.
In between these corporate assignments, he has been involved in a number of entrepreneurial ventures in energy and mining across Africa. These include a US$1 Billion 375 MW independent power project, Cenpower Generation, which he co-founded and developed, and which reached commercial operation in 2019; a start-up oil and gas exploration company, Midway Resources, where he was CEO and laid the foundation of several licence and asset acquisitions in East and West Africa; an electricity meter factory in Kaduna, Nigeria which became operational in 2021; and a South African gold mining company reverse listed into a Hong-Kong listed public company.
Mr. Awotwi has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California, and a B.S in Electrical Engineering, Economics and Political Science from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com
