Eric Usher
Position: Head, Renewable Energy and Finance
Unit
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Responsibilities:
-Coordination of the Renewable Energy and Finance Unit
-Backup for to Energy Branch Head
-Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative
-UNEP/bank clean energy partnership programmes
Biography:
Eric Usher is Deputy Coordinator of the Energy Branch and Head of
the Renewable Energy and Finance Unit, for which he is directly
responsible for renewable energy and sustainable energy finance
programme activities. This work focuses on new approaches to delivering
cleaner energy services in regions without access and new means
for financing cleaner energy infrastructure.
Before joining UNEP, Mr. Usher held the position of General Manager
of Noor S.A., a solar rural electrification company in Morocco and,
prior to that, Programme Manager of energy technology commercialisation
projects at the Energy Diversification Research Laboratory in Varennes,
Quebec.
Eric has received a Master of Business Administration from INSEAD
in Fontainebleau, France, and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical
Engineering from Queen's University in Kingston, Canada.
Contacts:
Direct phone: 33 1 44 37 76 14
Fax: 33 1 44 37 14 74
UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economics
Energy Branch
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