Astro Seminar Series - VIA ZOOM

Jon Carrick is a CFA® charterholder who has focused his career on development finance initiatives across the globe.  He is Senior Investment Manager at InfraCo Africa, and has led investments in the water, transport, and power sectors including for renewable grid-tied independent power projects.  Jon is a Non-Executive Director for Bboxx, an off-grid service provider who designs, manufactures and sells solar home systems and clean cooking stoves. He is also a Non-Executive Director of Africa GreenCo, the first intermediary offtaker and service provider in sub-Saharan Africa, purchasing power from renewable IPPs and selling that electricity to utilities, private sector offtakers and competitive markets of the Southern African Power Pool.  Prior to working with InfraCo Africa he was Microfinance Programme Director for a Canadian NGO, with responsibility for overseeing microfinance operations in Central America and West Africa. Jon holds masters’ degrees in physics from the University of Waterloo and in economics from Trinity College Dublin and is highly motivated to facilitate investments in green initiatives that spur inclusive and sustainable economic growth.

Jon will talk about his career path, his work and how it meshes with his physics training.

Would you like to join this seminar via Zoom?  Please email WCA.