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Women in Energy Empowerment Mentoring Programme 2023

The Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition (GWNET) on behalf of the German Energy Agency (dena) and the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK), under the German bilateral energy partnerships, was excited to present the second cohort of the “Women in Energy Empowerment” mentoring programme.

This mentoring programme aimed to advance the careers of mid-career women working in the energy transition, in Israel, Türkiye, and Ukraine, through mentorship, knowledge transfer, and networking. We thank all applicants for taking part in this process.

About Dena: German Energy Agency (dena) works on projects, programmes and campaigns that promote energy efficiency and environment-friendly transformation of energy, distribution and use, renewable energies, climate protection and sustainable development. Visit website: https://www.dena.de/

About BMWK: Visit to the German Government’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) website here: BMWK – Homepage

View Mentees in this programme:

Israel:

Arina Shachar-Vishnevsky, CFO at Star Pumped Storage Ltd
Aya Ephrati, Innovation and Deal Flow at Enel (Innovation Hubs)
Dana Cohen, Climate and Energy Campaigner, Greenpeace
Daria Golan, Senior Product Manager at ExpertPower
Gabrielle Peled, Independent Lawyer at Independent
Irina Tsiganov, Chief Operating Officer at Bar-Dov Engineering & Management LTD
Meital Alon, CTO at MitroFix
Noa Aharoni, Head of Strategic Business Development at Apollo Power
Noga Halevi, Strategy and Policy Lead at SolarEdge
Ophira Melamed, CEO at NitroFix
Orit Vetzler, General Manager at Venair
Ortal Tiurin, R&D Engineer at Hydrolite
Osnat Merom Jacov, Technologist in the Plastic industry
Shiri Dror Kuhan, Legal Consultant for the Energy Sector and a Start-up Founder
Shiri Heffer, Senior Environmental Economist – Waste and Energy expert
Tali Zohar, Researcher at the Dead Sea and Arava Science Center and Head of the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation department at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies
Viktoriya Sergeyeva, Director at the Expert Petroleum Ukraine LLC

Türkiye:

Ada Tekin, Project Manager at Smart Güneş Teknolojileri
Arzu Gürkan, Deputy General Manager at BESENVE ENERJİ A.Ş
Buket Teneke Oduncu, Assistant Professor at Karabuk University
Çağla Odabaşı Özer, Advanced Projects and Data Science at Siro Silk Road Clean Energy Storage Technologies
Canan Avsar, I&C Coordination Chief at Calık Enerji
Elif Özel, co-Founder at Elf Solar Enerji
Elvan Tugsuz Guven, General manager at Tektuğ Elektrik Üretim A.Ş.
Fatma Karagöz, Project Development Manager at PNE AG
Kübra Aydın, Engineer at the Electricity Generation Company of Turkey (EUAS)
Ruhan Cemre Uçar, Project Manager
Ruveyda Gülmisal Akkale Çelebi, Assistant Professor at Commercial Law at Karabük University
Dr Selin Calik, Founder at WOMEN IN SMART ENERGY UK (WSE-UK)
Sultan Turut Balioglu, Energy Specialist at Energy Market Regulatory Authority of Türkiye
Tuğçe Evren, Finance Director at Bemka Enerji

Ukraine:

Daryna Kulaga, Head of Emissions Management Unit at Naftogaz of Ukraine
Khrystyna Kasyanova, Business Development Manager at Rodina
Marta Melnyk, Leading analyst at JSC “ENERGY COMPANY OF UKRAINE”
Natalia Cherniaieva, Deputy Director for Development at Unisolar Engineering LLC
Nataliia Revutska, Deputy Head of Department at PJSC Lvivoblenergo
Oksana Bojesen, Business Controller at Blue Power Partners
Oksana Kysil, Country Expert of Covenant of Mayors to Ukraine at the EU funded project “Covenant of Mayors East”
Oksana Tarasiuk, Vice President of NGO at the Institute for Circular and Hydrogen Economy
Olena Shevchenko, Assistant of Professor at the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”
Olena Sichkovska-Chornobyl, Associate at Asters Law Firm
Tetiana Kovalenko, Executive Manager at LLC INDIAN SOLAR
Ulyana Bardyn, Outside Counsel at Eversheds Sutherland
Yuliia Solomakha, EU Law Expert at the EU Technical Assistance Project “Support for the Implementation of EU-Ukraine Association Agreement”

View Mentors in this programme:

Amruta Joshi, Senior Research Fellow (Assistant Professor- Research focused) at WMG, University of Warwick, India
Annkathrin Rabe, Originator Green Power at Statkraft, Germany
Asli Erem (PhD), Aksa Energy Board Member at Aksa Enerji Üretim A.Ş., Turkiye
Belen Gallego, CEO of ATA Insights, Spain
Berit Müller, Manager at DGS – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sonnenenergie Landesverband Berlin Brandenburg e.V., Germany
Corina Radu, Founder at Impact Market Romania, Romania
Diana Süsser, Senior Expert Energy Policies and Transition Aspects at the Institute for European Energy and Climate Policy Foundation (IEECP), Germany
Dorottya Kriechbaumer, Professor at Campus Burghausen, Hungary
Dörte Fouquet, Partner of Counsel at Becker Buettner Held Law Firm, Germany
Elena Martínez, Project Manager – International at Alpiq, Spain
Emma Baz, Decarbonization Engineer at XCarb Innovation Fund, Spain
Ervin Tal-Gutelmacher, Chief Executive Officer at Hydrolite, Israel
Filagot Tesfaye, Founder at On Energy Consult and President at EWiEn- Ethiopian Women in Energy, Ethiopia
Florencia Rodriguez Lamas, Head Finance Sales Americas at Siemens Energy, Argentina
Gelem Del Mar, VP of Implementation Service Agreements EU-AF-AP Generation Service at Siemens Energy, Germany
Georgeta Auktor, Senior Project Manager at TUM International GmbH Romani
Gökçe Koşvar, Group Strategy Director at Yıldırım Group, Türkiye
Gül Avsar, Research Engineer at TUBİTAK SAGE, Türkiye
Ifey Ikeonu, Energy Policy & Regulation Consultant, Ghana
Iliyana Arnaudova, Senior Manager – Climate Change at Adam Smith International, Bulgaria
Ima Khrenova-Shymkina, Program Director, Ukraine
Kanoat (Mushtaree) Umurzokova, Founder of Eco Mons Vita & Woolican, Uzbekistan
Karin Reiss-Haimbala, Program Manager at UNIDO, Austria
María Isabel Roldán Serrano, Decarbonisation of Industrial Processes – Simulation and Virtual Design at Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt e.V., Spain
Marianella Chabaneau, Chief Operating Officer at Green Enesys, Uruguay
Marta Mieres Barcena, Corporate Infrastructure and New Energies – Global Market Development Manager at Honeywell, Spain
Natalia Anjaparidze, Member of the Supervisory Board at Air Liquide, Georgia
Natalia Mikołajczyk, Managing Associate, Energy & Infrastructure at Linklaters, Poland
Nicole Vermeulen, Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at Green Energy Venture AG, the Netherlands
Noa Haberman, Solutions Consultant at Water Energy Solutions, Israel
Oksana Roman, Global Development Director Asset & Key Account Management at Bilfinger, Ukraine
Olga Lange, Product Manager at Bosch, Germany
Paulo Smith Schneider, Professor of Engineering of Energy at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil
Rashmi Jawahar Ganesh, Project Administrator (Climate Technology and Innovative Finance) at UNIDO, India
Rodrigo Carè, Senior Associate – International Arbitration & DIFC Litigation at Horizons & Co Law Firm, Italy
Roma Notani, Market Analytics Advisor – Energy Storage at ENGIE North America Inc., India
Rosa-Eos Muehlhoelzer, Global Head of Technical Marketing – Grid Technologies, Germany
Samar Jaber, Chaiperson / Mechanical Engineer Department, American University of Madaba, Austria
Sarah McCormack, Professor at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Selen İnal, Country Advisor, Türkiye at EIT InnoEnergy, Türkiye
Sven Teske, Research Director at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Germany
Valentyna Beliakova, Operations Manager Solutions Europe at ContourGlobal, Ukraine
Vasmijahan Hasanova, Managing Partner | Principal Consultant at the MAS Global Group, Azerbaijan
Yamina Saheb, Lead Author at Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, France

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