Clifford J. Aron is an energy finance professional with more than 40 years of experience who offers a diverse career as a business entrepreneur and clean energy sector specialist encompassing all aspects of management, marketing, project finance, policy and regulatory affairs. He is recognized as a leading expert on the development of renewable energy, energy efficiency and energy access in emerging markets. Cliff is a leading advisor to global investors on sustainable energy investments, having advised dozens of private investors on solar, geothermal, hydro, biomass and wind power investments in emerging markets across Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia totaling several thousand MW of generating capacity.

In the African off-grid sector, Cliff is leading the development of two seminal energy access initiatives – the Green-for-Access First Loss Facility (G4A), new risk mitigation platform that partners with local financial institutions in Africa to facilitate local currency lending for energy access, and the GreenStreet Africa Development Company, an aggregation platform which develops portfolios of distributed renewable energy projects at African public health and education facilities. He is also supervising the GreenMax team implementing the KfW Clean Energy and Energy Inclusion for Africa (CEI Africa) Foundation, which provides financing and technical assistance to green mini-grid developers, off-grid solar companies and standalone productive use of energy enterprises in Africa.

An honors graduate in Political Science and International Relations from the State University of New York at Binghamton, Cliff continued his graduate studies at the New School for Social Research, Baruch College and the Parsons School of Design. He speaks Polish and reads French, Spanish and German.

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