Prof. Ogunlade R Davidson

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Former Minister of Energy and Water Resources, Sierra Leone

Prof. Ogunlade R Davidson

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Ogunlade R. Davidson was Minister of Energy and Water Resources for two and a half years in the Sierra Leone Government. And Co-Chair of Steering Committee of the Global Network on Energy for Sustainable Development (GNESD). He is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and was Dean of Post-Graduate Studies,  Director of Research. Also, he was Head of Department of Mechanical and Maintenance Engineering, and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the same university.

He was also the Chairman of the Board of the Sierra Leone Environmental Protection Agency (SLEPA), and was Director of the Board of National Power Authority and member of the Transitional Management Committee of the  Sierra Leone Broadcasting Services. Internationally, he was Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and. Also he was Professor and Director of the Energy and Development Research Centre (EDRC) of University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Before then, he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at University of California, Berkeley and a MacArthur Scholar at Princeton University and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in USA.

He has worked as visiting Professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, ENDA-TM in Senegal, and National Technical University of Denmark. He has published extensively in African Energy Systems and Policies, Power sector reform, Renewable Energy policy, Mitigation of Climate Change and on National Climate Change strategy.

He has worked as a Consultant for UNESCO, UNIDO, ILO, ABD, UNECA, UNDP, UNEP, GEF, UNFCCC, NEPAD, ADB, and the World Bank. Professionally, he is a Registered Chartered Engineer of United Kingdom and Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences and of the Sierra Leone Institution of Engineers, and a Chartered Member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers.

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