Global Ambassadors
The Women in Wind Global Leadership Program strives to represent the voice of women working in the wind energy industry on a global scale. Our Global Ambassadors are drawn from industry associations around the world, ensuring that they represent the interests of the sector on a national scale.
Global Ambassadors are industry champions of diversity and sustainability, who work in the wind energy sector in their respective countries. They serve as focal points for national communications, strategy and initiatives on gender diversity in wind energy, as well as contact points on this agenda for the public sector, private sector and media. Their representation helps to positively influence the national understanding of gender diversity in energy, and encourage more inclusive work cultures and environments.
Global Ambassadors also collaborate on shared initiatives, in service of a common goal to create a more sustainable future through a more inclusive clean energy sector. Women in Wind Global Ambassadors are not required to identify as women.
For general enquiries about Women in Wind Global Ambassadors, please contact [email protected].
Thank you to our Supporting Partner for Global Ambassadors in 2020
Represented by:
Anne Engemann Rasmussen, Head of Global Reward, Diversity & Inclusion
A message from our Supporting Partner:
Vestas strives to create and sustain an environment that actively embraces diversity and inclusion by recognizing that all individuals bring a diverse set of experiences and perspectives to the table for approaching and solving problems. Only by acknowledging and harvesting from different perspectives, will Vestas gain competitive advantage and leverage the effect of diversity for business success.
Lack of diversity represents a loss of talent. By focusing on Diversity and Inclusiveness, Vestas aims at creating equal access to opportunity regardless of social identity. We believe that a diverse workforce will improve teamwork and collaboration, ensure a focus on innovation and creativity, and foster organizational responsiveness and agility.
Where We Are
Country Contacts
Brazil
Elbia Gannoum
CEO, ABEEólica
São Paulo, Brazil
Denmark
Camilla Holbech
Deputy CEO, Wind Denmark
Copenhagen, Denmark
Japan
Michiyo Uehara
Office Manager, Invenergy Wind Development Japan GK
Tokyo, Japan
Mongolia
Bayarmaa Lkhagvadorj
Capacity Development Manager, MonWEA
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Norway
Anne Grete Ellingsen
Director Academia and R&D, NorWEP
Oslo, Norway
South Africa
Veronique Fyfe
Project Manager, G7 Renewable Energies
Cape Town, South Africa
Turkey
Zeynep Aslıhan Yurtsever
General Coordinator, TUREB
Ankara, Turkey
United Kingdom
Alicia Green
Policy Analyst – Planning & Environment, RenewableUK
London, UK
Other Associations
The following associations also actively advocate for the interests of women working in energy and/or greater gender diversity in clean energy.
Please send any suggestions for additional associations to [email protected].
International associations:
- Global: Equal by 30
- Global: GWNET (Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition)
- Global: The Hawthorn Club
- Africa and Asia: ENERGIA (International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy)
- Nordic: NEEN (Nordic Energy Equality Network)
National associations:
- Argentina: AMES (Asociación de Mujeres en Energías Sustentables de Argentina)
- Australia: Women in Energy
- Canada: WiRE (Women in Renewable Energy)
- Germany: Women of Wind Energy Germany
- India: WiS (Women in Sustainability)
- Mexico: Red Mujeres (Red Mujeres en Energía Renovable y Eficiencia Energética)
- South Africa: WeConnect RESA
- Turkey: TWRE (Turkish Women in Renewable and Energy)
- UAE: WiSER (Women in Sustainability, Environment and Renewable Energy)
- UK: POWERful Women
- US: WICS (Women in Cleantech and Sustainability)
- US: WRISE (Women of Renewable Industries and Sustainable Energy)
Interested in Becoming a
Global Ambassador for Women in Wind?
The Women in Wind Global Leadership Program strives to represent the voice of women working in the wind energy industry on a global scale. Our Global Ambassadors are drawn from industry associations around the world, ensuring that they represent the interests of the sector on a national scale.
If you are part of a national wind or renewable energy industry association and would like to nominate a Global Ambassador for Women in Wind for your country, please get in touch. Otherwise, please contact your national wind or renewable industry association to encourage them to join.
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