Sanga Moses

Sanga Moses is a Ugandan social entrepreneur and founder and chief executive officer of Eco-fuel Africa Ltd. (EFA). Moses is notable for being one of the National Geographic's Emerging Explorers and then as winner of the $1 million Verizon's Powerful Answers Award for innovative technological solutions to global challenges.

Education and early life Sanga Moses grew up in a small village in western Uganda. He was the first in his clan to graduate from University, and in 2005 he was awarded a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Makerere University in Kampala.

Career Moses started his professional career as a trained accountant in Uganda's capital, Kampala, and worked in that role for three years from 2006 to 2009. The EFA business model created revenue for hundreds of local women retailers, who sell clean cooking charcoal (biochar) briquettes, and for thousands of farmers suppliers, who produce biochar from agricultural waste employing EFA's kilns technology. Moses worked with engineers to develop kilns and briquetting machines to produce affordable biochar. He aims to make this technology available to other sub-Saharan rural populations with a similar lack of affordable, clean bio-fuel. Moses has established that EFA's environmental policy include the reinvestment of part of its profits in Uganda reforestation.

Awards 2011 Unreasonable Institute Fellow. 2012 TED Fellow. 2012 Community Solutions Fellow.