Clean Cooking Webinar: Defining and Achieving Clean Cooking

Julie Ipe, Senior Director for Market Strengthening, Clean Cooking Alliance

Ms. Julie Ipe co-leads CCA's market development program, with a focus on activities related to behavior change, gender, policy, and market intelligence. She previously oversaw CCA’s behavior change communication program, which included consumer-facing mass media and community-based communication campaigns that reached over 40 million people. Ms. Ipe came to CCA from the Energy and Climate team at the United Nations Foundation. Earlier in her career, she worked as a consultant specialized in NGO management and strategy.

Heather Adair-Rohani, Technical Lead on Energy and Health, WHO

Ms. Heather Adair-Rohani leads the work on energy and health at the World Health Organization Headquarters.  She has led the establishment of the Health and Energy Platform of Action, and the High-level Coalition on Health and Energy. Ms. Adair-Rohani co-led the coordination and development of the WHO guidelines for indoor air quality: household fuel combustion and is currently overseeing the work to support countries in the implementation of these Guidelines through the Clean Household Energy Solutions Toolkit.  She also actively participates and represents WHO at various global initiatives focused on health, air pollution and energy like UN Energy, Sustainable Energy for All, Inter-Agency Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators, and the Global Strategy for Women, Children and Adolescent Health.

Sophie Gumy, Technical Officer, WHO

Sophie Gumy is Technical Officer in the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health at the World Health Organization. She is leading WHO's work on evidence synthesis, capacity-building and monitoring of ambient air pollution exposure and related disease burden. Prior to joining the Air Quality and Health unit, she was working on the burden of disease from various environmental risk factors, including air pollution, water and sanitation and climate change.

Anisha Nazareth, Associate Scientist, Stockholm Environment Institute

Anisha Nazareth is an Associate Scientist with the Equitable Transitions program at SEI US. Her research interests focus on the political ecology of sustainability transitions particularly in emerging/developing economies. She has a background in Computer Science, Development Theory and Environmental Policy.

Fiona Lambe, Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute

Fiona Lambe is a Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute with 15 years’ research experience in the fields of energy access, sustainable development, and behaviour change. Her current work focuses on understanding behavioural drivers influencing clean energy transitions in low-income settings, and the process of designing effective services and products that can better meet the needs of energy users.

Emily Ghosh, Staff Scientist, Stockholm Environment Institute

Emily Ghosh is a Scientist in the Equitable Transitions program at the Stockholm Environment Institute’s U.S. Center. She focuses on assessing the equity and environmental justice dimensions of the sustainability transition and supporting the creation of energy-sector climate mitigation plans and policies in both developing and developed countries. She conducts research on alternative economic paradigms (such as degrowth and green growth), decolonization, the energy-water-food nexus, and has prior experience as a water and wastewater engineer.

Rob Bailis, Senior Scientist, Stockholm Environment Institute

Rob Bailis is a senior scientist at SEI’s US Center. His research focuses on the relationships between energy, social welfare, and environmental change in developing countries. He has worked on different aspects of household energy for nearly 20 years. Recent projects include design, implementation, and evaluation of clean cooking interventions in India, Kenya, Malawi, and Zambia. Other projects focus on modeling the impacts of household energy pathways on land use and land cover change, climate, and public health.

Ute Collier, Head of Policy (Renewable Energy Markets), International Renewable Energy Agency

Ute Collier joined the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in May 2021 to lead its work on policy and renewable energy markets, covering issues such as end-use decarbonisation, green hydrogen, power sector policies, and energy access. Prior to joining IRENA, she was Head of Energy for the development organisation Practical Action, focusing on renewable energy solutions in energy access settings. Previously, she worked at the International Energy Agency and the UK’s Climate Change Committee, as well as several public sector and non-governmental organisations earlier in her career. She has a particular interest in helping to advance low-carbon solutions in end-use sectors, including clean cooking.

Kimball Chen, Chairman, The Global LPG Partnership

Kimball Chen is the Chairman of the Global LPG Partnership (“GLPGP”), a UN and EU- backed NGO which collaborates with international institutions, developing country governments and the private sector, to plan, finance and implement increased availability and use of liquefied petroleum gas (“LPG”) for clean cooking which can deliver the health, environmental, climate and gender benefits resulting from reduced gathering and use of wood and charcoal for cooking fuel. Mr. Chen has advised many governments and international institutions on LPG and liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) strategy and policy issues. His private sector experience includes service as the Chairman of Energy Transportation Group, Inc. which has financed, built and operated LPG and LNG capability for developed and developing countries. Members of his family were leading Ministers of State in the modernization of China.

Simon Batchelor, UK Research and Innovation Coordinator, Modern Energy Cooking Services

Simon Batchelor is Director of Gamos, a Research Fellow at Loughborough University and Research Coordinator for the UK Aid funded Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) programme. With over 30 years of experience in development, a renewable energy based PhD, significant social mobilisation programming in Cambodia, Mr. Batchelor is best known for his firms work on mobile telephony. In 2000 UK Aid funded Gamos research documented the possibilities for the development of mobile money in Africa and Asia, and working with multiple stakeholders he championed for its creation. Since 2012 he focused again on renewable energy, identified new opportunities and strategies for tackling the enduring problem of clean cooking and designed the MECS programme.