Edouard Wenseleers
Managing Director, Business Development
Globeleq
Nairobi, Kenya
About me
Edouard Wenseleers is Globeleq’s Managing Director, Business Development and leads Globeleq’s activities in the East African and Copperbelt regions.
Overall, Edouard has focused on the IPP business in Africa over the last 14 years. Edouard joined Globeleq in early 2018 and successfully led the company’s power project development and acquisition activities across the East African region from early 2020 onwards, including the financial closing of the 52MWp Malindi Solar project in Kenya (which is now in operation), and the 35MW Menengai geothermal project in Kenya (which is currently under construction).
Prior to joining Globeleq, Edouard worked for ENGIE over a span of 10 years, during which time he contributed to the successful development and financial closing of both the 300MW Tarfaya wind farm and the 1,386MW Safi thermal plant in Morocco and subsequently set up ENGIE’s development office in Nairobi, covering East Africa.
Edouard holds a MSc degree in Chemical Engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain in Belgium and a MSc degree in Economics and Corporate Management from the IFP-School in Paris, France.
My organisation
Globeleq is a leading investor, developer, owner and operator of power projects in Africa. Supported by our shareholders, British International Investment and Norfund, we grow our business by investing capital to enhance our existing assets and by developing new utility scale power generation projects with a focus on the clean energy transition. Globeleq has approximately 1,794 MW in operation across 17 power plants in Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa and Tanzania. We are currently constructing a further 485 MW (Mozambique 450 MW and Kenya 35 MW), and actively developing approximately 2,000 MW in new power on the continent.
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Industry & Private SectorSpeaker sessions (1)
Thursday, 13 March 2025
15:30 - 17:00