Ogunlade Davidson

Since 1993, Ogunlade R. Davidson has been Professor of Mechanical Engineering and is currently the Dean of Post-Graduate Studies at the University of Sierra Leone, and was Dean of the Faculty of Engineering for several years. Internationally, he is Co-Chair of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and Co-Chair of the Steering Committee of the Global Network on Energy for Sustainable Development (GNESD). Between 2000 and 2003 Dr. Davidson was Professor and Director of the Energy and Development Research Centre (EDRC), at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Earlier, he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley in 1987, and MacArthur Scholar at Princeton University and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in the USA in 1990-92. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, ENDA-TM in Senegal, and at Riso National Laboratory in Denmark. Dr. Davidson has published extensively on African energy systems and policies, power sector reform, renewable energy policy, mitigation of climate change and on national climate change strategy. He has worked as a Consultant for several bodies, including UNESCO, UNIDO, ILO, UNECA, UNDP, UNEP, GEF, UNFCCC, NEPAD, ADB, the World Bank, Batelle laboratories and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Professionally, he is a Registered Chartered Engineer of the United Kingdom and a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences and of the Sierra Leone Institution of Engineers.