Ifeoma Malo

Ifeoma Malo is a Nigerian lawyer working in international development. Her work focuses on clean energy technologies, and energy access and climate change mitigation and adaptation across Africa.

Education She obtained a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Ibadan in 2000 and holds multiple master's degrees: Law from Harvard University, Dispute Resolution, an MBA and a Masters in Information Technology, all from the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Career Malo began her career as counsel at Ashoka, office of West Africa and from there worked as a deputy head intellectual property at the firm of George Ikoli and Okagbue and later as a senior manager at the Negotiation and Conflict Management Group.

In 2015, she served as the chief of staff and senior technical adviser on energy policies, regulations and partnerships to Osita Nebo, the former Nigerian Minister of Power. She was the former Country Director of Power for All (2016–2020). She is currently the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Clean Tech Hub and Energy Innovation Center, Abuja. She also played a senior advisory role with the Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission. She also seats on the global board of Green Peace International in Netherlands and the board of Access to Energy Institute in Germany. She was a former board member of Budgit - Nigerian civic organisation that applies technology for citizen engagement with institutional improvement to facilitate societal change.

Award and honors In the year 2013, she was nominated among six Nigerians for Desmond Tutu Fellowship Programme. Malo won the Eisenhower Fellowship award in 2015. She is a Desmond Tutu fellow, African Leadership fellow, and Crans Montana New Leaders fellow. In addition, she is a fellow of the African Leadership Forum as well as a Global Leadership Academy fellow.

In 2020, Malo was selected by an international team of judges in the African Power and Energy Elite industry award as the Power Industry Leader of the year.