Eric Gibbs

About Eric Gibbs

Senior international clean energy and climate change leader with extensive experience in clean energy, energy efficiency, energy access, and infrastructure development and financing in countries throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East. Successful entrepreneurial experience developing and growing organizations globally, introducing new products and services, identifying and developing new business opportunities, as well as the sources of funding to capitalize on them. Extensive experience in motivating and leading cross-functional program teams across regional and country platforms, and in managing complex multi‐stakeholder processes involving governments, NGOs, companies and the public.Highly successful record of sourcing and leveraging funding from philanthropies, corporations, US government agencies, and international donor organizations. Professional experience in over 25 countries, fluent in multiple languages, and comfortable operating in all environments.

Experience

1. Senior Vice President, Global Strategy

   CEBA

   Mar 2023 — Present · DC, US

   I lead the development and expansion of CEBA\'s Global Programs portfolio, which includes:• The Clean Energy Procurement Academy, a best in class training program on clean energy procurement that provides supply chain companies with the knowledge, tools, and resources to undertake or accelerate their own decarbonization and lower Scope 3 emissions of CEBA members. • Global Markets & Policy portfolio, which comprises our joint Secretariat with the US Department of State on the Corporate Energy Demand Initiative (CEDI), as well as partnership with the semiconductor industry\'s Energy Collaborative (SEMI EC) to drive policy and market reforms that accelerate clean energy investment, development, deployment, and procurement in priority countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

Education

• Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)

  MA

• University of New Hampshire

  B.A.

Skills

• Program Development
• Management
• International Relations
• Renewable Energy
• Energy Efficiency
• Latin America
• Public Policy
• Entrepreneurship
• Energy
• Proposal Writing
• Policy
• Economics
• Africa
• Organizational Development
• Business Development
• Market Analysis
• Strategic Planning
• Due Diligence
• Project Management
• Leadership
• Analysis
• Policy Analysis
• Climate Change
• Sustainability
• Government
• Capacity Building
• French
• Sustainable Development
• Program Management
• International Development
• Environmental Policy
• Energy Policy