Luiz Junqueira is a consultant with over fifteen years of experience working in business development and project implementation of large-scale infrastructure and renewable power projects for private equity investors and industry leaders in emerging markets such as Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa.

He has substantial experience in LPs and GPs side on business development, managing, planning and supervise an EPC project implementation in remote locations with zero tolerance to unsafe working conditions.

Reference clients include Berkeley Energy, CountorGlobal, Tome International, FabStone, Arkap, Quantum Global Group, Alstom, Camargo Correa, etc.

FUNAE is a public Mozambican institution endowed with legal personality, administrative and financial autonomy that develops its activity on a national scale. Its activities include providing financial support, promoting equipment installation, providing consulting and technical assistance services and disseminating studies and research related to the production and distribution of new and renewable energy.

VdA is a portuguese independent law firm. Our international footprint is one of the largest among the leading Lisbon-based law firms being present in ten jurisdictions, including francophone Africa, through VdAtlas - a fully integrated network of indepedent law firms

The Ministry of Energy and Water, abbreviated MINEA, is the Assistant Ministerial Department of the President of the Republic, whose purpose is to propose the formulation, conduct, execution and control of the Executive's policy in the areas of energy, water and sanitation.

The Ministry of the Environment and Energy Transition of Portugal is headed by Minister João Pedro Matos Fernandes. This is the Ministry that oversees the Energy area and has as Secretary of State for Energy, Ana Fontoura Gouveia.

The Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Energy of Cape Verde is headed by Minister Alexandre Dias Monteiro. This is the Ministry that oversees the energy area.

The main objective of the CE-CPLP is to facilitate and strengthen business relations between associations and business entities of countries affiliated to the Business Confederation of the CPLP, increasing business, imports and exports in economic areas where these countries are included.

Guilherme was the international Relations Director of A2E- Access to Energy, at EDP Renováveis S.A.
Represented EDPR he was also:Vice-President of the Board of ALER, Vice-President of the Board of ARE- Alliance for Rural Electrification; Member of SEforALL CEMGP- Clean Energy MiniGrids Partnership; Chair of the A2E Network of Experts at Eurelectric.
Prior to Join EDP Group in 2007, as the Social Innovation Director of EDP Foundation, Guilherme successfully ran for more than two decades his own business in competitive, dynamic first line sectors, also heading various business associations in Portugal and abroad.
In 2017 Guilherme, was appointed Ambassador for SGD 7 by the UN Global Compact – Network Portugal
Guilherme holds a Master Degree in Entrepreneurial Sustainability Business and Environment; Post- Graduate in International Economy - European High Studies Diploma (University of Nancy- France); Business Management Degree (University of Lisbon).

Isabel Cancela de Abreu graduated from Environmental Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico, complemented by a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Sustainable Energy Systems under the MIT Portugal program. After stopping by creative start up YDreams, she made her career in the field of renewable energy associations at APREN (Portuguese Association of Renewable Energy) and EREC, its European counterpart. In addition, Isabel also volunteered at Niassa in Mozambique, an internship at Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and participated in the organization of Sun Aid's Global Solar Academy in Évora. Isabel was the promoter of the ALER project and now serves as Executive Director of the Association.

Miquelina Menezes was President of FUNAE, the Energy Fund of Mozambique responsible for off-grid rural electrification projects, between 1998 and end of 2015.

Before working at FUNAE, Miquelina was responsible by the VAT project with IMF at the Finance Ministry.

Most of her professional career was in the energy sector. She served as Deputy Director General of the National Hydrocarbon Company between 1986 and 1998 and before that she worked at the Mining Development Company, at the Mineral Resources Ministry, at the State Secretariat for Coal and Hydrocarbons and at the National Coal Company.

Since 1992 she has been a teacher of management at Eduardo Mondlane University – Faculty of Economy.

She is currently President of ALER – the Lusophone Renewable Energy Association.