Linus MOFOR
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa
Senior Environmental Affairs Officer (Energy, Infrastructure and Climate Change), TCCNRMD- Climate Change Section
Linus is a senior environmental affairs officer leading the portfolio of work on energy, infrastructure and climate change at the African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) in the Technology, Climate Change & Natural Resource Management Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. His areas of expertise include climate change and natural resources management, with emphasis on climate resilience, renewable energy and energy transformation, sustainable infrastructure development and greening Africa's transformation. Recent publications include (i) Accelerating clean energy investments for access and climate ambition in Africa, and (ii) Enabling the green power transformation for the Africa we want. Before joining ECA, Linus was renewable energy innovation and technology analyst with the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Prior to joining IRENA, he was an industrial development expert with the Energy and Climate Change Branch of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) in Vienna, Austria, working on various Global Environment Facility (GEF) and technical assistance renewable energy and climate change projects in various countries in Africa. Linus joined UNIDO from academia where he was a senior lecturer, postgraduate programme director and senior consultant at the Centre for Engineering Research and Environmental Applications at the University of Glamorgan (now University of South Wales), UK. Mr. Mofor holds a Ph.D. from the University of Dundee, Scotland and a Post-doctoral diploma in computing from the University of Glamorgan in the United Kingdom.