Arnaud Schalk 2021 Speaker

Investment Officer - Offgrid Energy Africa

Proparco

Biography

Arnaud is an investment officer at Proparco, specializing in off-grid electrification in Africa. He is in charge of the deployment of the ARESUF facility in partnership with the EU, and more generally of the decentralized energy strategy in the countries where Proparco is active. He has been involved in various projects in geographies such as Nigeria, Kenya, or DRC. Arnaud is a member of the investment committee of ElectriFi.

He started his career with Veolia Water in South Africa and then joined international strategy consulting firms where he specialized in the financing of energy transition and access to energy. Arnaud is a graduate of Imperial College London and EPFL.

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Arnaud Schalk 2021 Speaker

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