NEED Steering Board

Mr Cheddi Kiravu

 

 

 

Country

Botswana

Current Position                 

Director, Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC)  and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering & Technology, University of Botswana (UB)

Educational Background

Electrical Engineering at the Engineering Faculty of the Frederich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany) and Mathematics, Physics, and Education at the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)

Degree

Dipl.-Ing. Degree from the University of Erlangen and BSc. Ed (Hons.) from the University of Dar es Salaam

Focus

Advancing interdisciplinary research, education, and advocacy for Clean Energy

Former Assignments/Professional ExperiencesHe led a skills taskforce under the auspices of a DANIDA consultancy on energy conservation in the Botswana Building Sector. He also oversees from the CERC’s point of view, the coordination and management of other EU-sponsored international collaborative research projects