GEAPP Appoints Woochong Um as its New Chief Executive Officer
The appointment is a reaffirmation of GEAPP's commitment to realizing greater change and opportunities to unlock green energy in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean to power progress and secure an inclusive, resilient future for all.
April 16, 2024. By News Bureau
The appointment is a reaffirmation of GEAPP's commitment to realizing greater change and opportunities to unlock green energy in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean to power progress and secure an inclusive, resilient future for all.
"Securing a just energy transition is only possible if we urgently work together – there is no competition in this – just the race against ourselves and against time," said incoming GEAPP CEO Woochong Um. "We need everyone to pull their weight and pull together and GEAPP can make an important contribution to this mission. I look forward to bringing my experience uniting broad groups of stakeholders from the public and private sectors to work with our alliance to urgently address the climate crisis."
Ravi Venkatesan, Chair of the GEAPP Board, said: "Woochong Um's appointment marks an important milestone for GEAPP as we step up our commitment to catalyzing a renewable energy movement which will improve the lives of millions and help build a sustainable future for our planet. In our initial two years, the alliance has shown powerful progress in advancing the transition to green energy. In Woochong, we have a leader who comes from a key member of our alliance and brings a keen appreciation of the urgency of the mission and the need for collective action. His decision to join and lead GEAPP will propel us into an even brighter future together."
Saurabh Kumar, Vice- President- India, GEAPP said, "I'm thrilled to welcome Woochong Um to the helm of GEAPP. His rich experience in the multilateral funding space with a strong focus on sustainability and climate action makes him the ideal choice to lead our organization. His vision will be instrumental in furthering our mission of affordable clean energy for all. With his guidance, I'm confident GEAPP will continue to play an active role in driving the global clean energy transition - reducing carbon emissions, expanding energy access, and creating jobs for the people and communities most in need."
The appointment of Woochong Um culminates a rigorous selection process and represents the beginning of a new phase for GEAPP as it builds on a successful track record that started with its launch at COP26 in 2021. To date, GEAPP has invested USD 464m of active capital in nearly 100 projects in almost 20 countries, and built an alliance of over 50 partners driving a shared mission that is showing early evidence of transformational impact with 147,000 tons of CO2 emissions averted, 1.3 million people and businesses connected to new or improved energy systems, and over 600,000 jobs and livelihoods supported (directly and indirectly) as cited in its second impact report Powering People & Planet.
GEAPP is grateful to have had the dedicated and strong leadership of interim CEO Joseph Ng'ang'a, who guided the alliance and advanced its work to scale distributed renewable energy and battery energy storage systems across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Effective 1 August 2024, Joseph will hand over the role to Woochong Um, who will continue the alliance's pioneering work to scale new solutions, strengthen partnerships, and facilitate access to an inclusive and resilient future for all.
Woochong Um brings a wealth of experience from his prestigious 31-year career at the Asian Development Bank. As ADB's Managing Director General, he spearheaded global partnerships and funding mechanisms to transform economies and communities. Woochong's time at the ADB saw him driving the bank's sustainability agenda, putting environmental and renewable energy action plans at the heart of major development sectors, including health, education, agriculture, community resilience, and humanitarian settings. Prior to the ADB, he worked as a corporate computer systems specialist at Pitney Bowes and Pfizer in the USA.
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