Fifteen professionals from eight African countries, selected from 231 applications, are joining an eleven-week production fellowship designed to strengthen the people, ideas, and institutions shaping Africa's energy transition.
Cohort Zero brings together professionals working across government, regulation, infrastructure, energy access, finance, research, civil society, media, strategic communication, and the private sector. Together, they will investigate consequential transition challenges and turn their experience into evidence-based work built for institutional influence.
Selected from 231 applicants, the Founding Class brings together 15 professionals from Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Nigeria, South Africa, Togo, and Zambia. They work across public institutions, regulation, infrastructure delivery, energy access, climate and energy finance, research, accountability, journalism, strategic communication, and enterprise development. Each Fellow brings an institutional vantage point from which to investigate one of the structural challenges shaping Africa's energy transition.
People are the power plant. Africa’s energy transition will not be delivered by technology and finance alone. It also requires professionals who can produce credible analysis, interrogate investment, strengthen institutions, communicate complex ideas and turn ambition into implementation. The ETA Fellows Programme is built to develop that capability through production, peer learning and practitioner engagement.
Cohort Zero is composed of fifteen transition leaders from across the African continent.
Individual Fellow profiles, Faculty Contributors, programme updates, Signature Analyses and recorded Fellow showcases will be added as Cohort Zero progresses.
Africa's energy transition requires more than projects and financing. It requires professionals and institutions capable of turning ambition into implementation. Energy Transition Africa welcomes collaboration with governments, development institutions, universities, research organisations, foundations, investors, media organisations, and practitioner networks.
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