Nair de Sousa is a Climate Geoscientist and a Clean-Energy Consultant focused on advancing the Energy Sector in Africa by fighting against Climate Change.  As Co-Founder and Energy Sustainability Director at the African Circular Business Alliance, Nair’s work focuses on the implementation of low-carbon technologies in multiple sectors.

In this role, Nair integrates skills from her career as a geoscientist, field engineer, reservoir engineer, and policy framework analyst.  Before her current role, Nair was part of a team of a team of policy, economics, and technical experts that helped advance some of the most important carbon capture and storage policies to date in the United States and Europe.  From this experience, she developed an understanding of the business models, technical, and policy experience in the United States and Europe, and is currently making it relevant to the context of emerging markets in African countries.

Nair is a member of the Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition (GWNET), a member of the African Hydrogen Hub (AHH), a Young African Leader (YALI), and a 2021 Mandela Washington Fellowship Alumna.