Climate Solutions Lab Mentorship Network.
Claire Kagga
MENTEE:
Rolex Muceka
Cynthia Loria
MENTEE: María José Pérez de León
Daniel Abreu
MENTEE: Estrella Herrera, Corayma De Dios
Débora Leal
MENTEE: Owen Machuku
Dr. Mao Amis
MENTEE: Annet Dianah Nannono
Dr. Rouffahi
MENTEE: Mariama Abdoulaye Ide
Florencia Rojas
MENTEE: Jonathan Mickaël Andréas
Gabriela Fuentes
MENTEE: Ana Rocío Silva Rivera
Jackeline Brincker
MENTEE: Ana Rocío Silva Rivera
Santiago Mazzeo
MENTEE: Caterina Vetrugno
Victoria Matusevich
MENTEE: Philippa Hamakasu
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Claire Kagga |
Claire Kagga is a Consultant at the Renewable Energy Business Incubator (REBi) Limited. She is experienced in business incubation and acceleration of Micro, Small and Medium size Enterprises. A Certified Inclusive Business Advisor with eleven (11) years’ experience in providing business advisory support to green enterprises engaged in clean energy, green manufacturing, sustainable construction, energy efficiency, sustainable transport, sustainable tourism and waste management. She is a Certified Expert in Climate & Renewable Energy Finance. A mentor, Solar E-Kiosk: A solar powered energy kiosk for promoting e-mobility and access to decentralized renewable energy startup – Impulsouth Mentorship program; was previously a business mentor on the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP), Nigeria.
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Cynthia Loria |
Cynthia is Fundación Avina’s manager in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, where she promotes sustainability through collaborative processes aimed to generate positive impact at scale. She also runs a regional migration programme and is the focal point of Impulsouth in Guatemala and Dominican Republic. Cynthia has worked as an expert and advisor in engineering, climate change, development, policy and leadership for the public and private sector, as well as for civil society organizations in different Latin American countries.
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Daniel Abreu |
Specialization in Development Studies and Climate Change from the University of Rotterdam and in International Relations from the University of Barcelona. He has worked as a researcher for UNDP, adolescent and youth participation coordinator for UNICEF. He was an international negotiator representing the Dominican Republic at world climate change summits, including the Paris Agreement, and Focal Point of the Climate Change Learning Platform project with the National Council for Climate Change and UNITAR. He currently works as a consultant on ecology and climate change initiatives for different United Nations and government agencies, companies and community organizations. He has published internationally on issues related to climate change and democratic participation for institutions such as the Catalan Institute for Peace, Greenpeace International, Transparency International and the UNDP, UNESCO and UNICEF offices for Latin America.
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Débora Leal |
Specialization in Development Studies and Climate Change from the University of Rotterdam and in International Relations from the University of Barcelona. He has worked as a researcher for UNDP, adolescent and youth participation coordinator for UNICEF. He was an international negotiator representing the Dominican Republic at world climate change summits, including the Paris Agreement, and Focal Point of the Climate Change Learning Platform project with the National Council for Climate Change and UNITAR. He currently works as a consultant on ecology and climate change initiatives for different United Nations and government agencies, companies and community organizations. He has published internationally on issues related to climate change and democratic participation for institutions such as the Catalan Institute for Peace, Greenpeace International, Transparency International and the UNDP, UNESCO and UNICEF offices for Latin America.
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Dr. Mao Amis |
Dr. Amis is the Co-founder and Executive Director of the African Centre for a Green Economy, a leading non-profit think tank based in South Africa. The Centre’s mission is to champion an inclusive and just transition in Africa, through undertaking research and providing thought leadership. Dr. Amis has more than 15 years’ experience in the green economy sector in Africa and globally, as a researcher and thought leader. He advices on a range of issues including climate finance, low carbon development, inclusive business models, corporate sustainability strategies, water stewardship etc. He began his career as a conservation biologist, working for WWF-South Africa as a freshwater programme manager, where he worked with leading companies to help them understand their water related business risks and develop mitigation strategies. Between 2016- 2017, Dr. Amis was an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town and he currently serves as an external examiner for the MBA programme at the Said Business School, University of Oxford. He also serves on various Boards including the South African Renewable Energy Business Incubator (SAREBI), the Freshwater Research Centre, and the Table Mountain Fund (TMF) as a non-Executive Director. Dr. Amis holds an MSc and PhD in Conservation Biology from the University of Cape Town.
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Dr. Rouffahi |
Rouffahi KOABO is the CEO of CIPMEN, the first business incubator in Niger – specialized in ICT, Agribusiness and renewable energy – and the CEO of SahelInnov, the regional ecosystem for startups in Sahel region. Before CIPMEN, Rouffahi has worked for 10 years in the field of corporate consulting in digital transformation & data protection for major firms in America, Europe and Africa. He is the co-founder of FIDENI (a private equity fund of Niger’s Diaspora), 3 startups in Niger and two in France. Rouffahi graduated from the Lyon 1 University in France and Concordia University in Canada and was part of the Nigerien Diaspora Associations in France and Canada.
Rouffahi Koabo est directeur général du CIPMEN, le principal incubateur d’entreprises au Niger, spécialisé dans les TIC, l’agrobusiness et les énergies renouvelables. Il est aussi à la tête de SahelInnov, l’écosystème régional pour les start-ups au Sahel. Il a travaillé comme consultant et salarié pendant plus de10 ans en transformation digitale et protection des données pour des grandes entreprises aux Etats-Unis, en Europe et en Afrique. Co-fondateur de Fideni (un fond éthique privé de la diaspora nigérienne), il a lancé 3 starts-up au Niger et deux en France. Rouffahi est diplômé de l’Université de Lyon 1 en France et de l’Université Concordia au Canada. Il a été un membre actif des associations de la diaspora nigérienne en France et au Canada.
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Florencia Rojas |
Florencia Rojas has a degree in Environmental Sciences and Occupational Health and Safety of Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, and a master’s degree in Natural Resource Management from the Technical University of Freiberg in Germany. She began her professional career as an environmental consultant for industries in 2006. In 2012, she worked coordinating the waste management program of the former Secretary of Environment and Sustainable Development of Argentina. In 2014 she traveled to Germany, where she spent almost 5 years developing her career, participated in postgraduate courses, worked on a research project about green industrial parks and their contribution to mitigation and adaptation to climate change, and continued her university education. Since late 2018, after her return to Argentina, she is working at Fundación Avina, at first coordinating the Inclusive Recycling agenda in Argentina and currently coordinating the Sustainable Cities program in different countries of the region implementing projects with local community organizations in topics such us: circular economy, resource efficiency, innovation, social impact and resilience.
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Gabriela Fuentes |
Gabriela is a Forestry Engineer from the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala with an MBA from York University International College and a Postgraduate Degree in Integrated Water Resources Management from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Since February 2018, she has held the position of Director of the Center for Environmental and Biodiversity Studies (CEAB) at the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG). Prior to that, since 2014, she was a researcher at CEAB, during which time she worked mainly on climate change mitigation, especially in the land use change sector and avoided deforestation projects. She is the representative of the Guatemalan System of Climate Change Sciences (SGCCC) to the National Climate Change Council (CNCC) and was assistant secretary of the SGCCC for three years, representing UVG. As representative of the SGCCC to the CNCC, she has participated in three UNFCCC Conferences of the Parties (in 2015 in Paris, in 2016 in Marrakech and in 2019 in Madrid) as a member of the national delegation and advisor to the government on climate change. From CEAB, she has coordinated several research projects funded by donors such as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Previously, she worked at the National Forestry Institute (INAB) as a forestry professional in the Forest Hydrology Office of the Department of Conservation of Strategic Forest Ecosystems and as an environmental specialist at Transportadora de Energía Eléctrica de Centroamérica S.A.
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Jackeline Brincker |
Jackeline is an Engineer in Local Environmental Management from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (USAC) and has a master’s degree in Environmental and Sustainability Management from the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG). Participated as an exchange student in the Master’s Program in Environmental Sciences at the Northeastern University of Norway (USN).
She is a researcher at the Center for Environmental Studies and Biodiversity and professor in the Biology Department of the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. In the last five years she has gained experience in the execution and management of environmental and climate change research projects.
She has worked as inter-institutional coordinator of projects related to climate change, and has authored several national documents related to climate change, such as the Third National Communication on climate change, the First Biennial Update Report (BUR) and the Updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) for the country.
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Santiago Mazzeo |
Santiago is currently the manager of the business accelerator of the Latitud R Inclusive Recycling platform. He also works at Fundación Avina in the Sustainable Business and Finance Department, in the regenerative agribusiness program in the Amazon and the dry corridor of Latin America. His profession is an Industrial Engineer specializing in triple impact businesses.
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Victoria Matusevich |
Consultant of Resilience and Climate Transition programme, coordinating BASE – Building Approaches to fund local Solutions with climate Evidence
Victoria coordinates BASE, an initiative driven by Fundación Avina and supported by Skoll Foundation. BASE work collaboratively with partners and associated initiatives to promote more and better access to climate finance for local communities, simplifying the ways to develop a climate rationale and demonstrating the impact that the solutions implemented have on mitigation or adaptation.
Before joining Fundación Avina, Victoria has worked since 2004 as a consultant on sustainability and climate change issues for public and private sectors. She developed environmental impact assessment and sustainability strategies and led verifications of sustainability reports. From 2018 to 2020, Victoria coordinated the Climate Finance Readiness project in Argentina funded by the Green Climate Fund (GCF).