2025 SPEAKERS

Jo Dean

Jo Dean has 18 years’ experience in design and construction of process and flow control plants in the Mining Sector. In 2000, inspired by Attenborough; Bloomberg; Ban Ki Moon and, Figueres and her intrinsic need to make a difference to the world she joined the Chamber of Commerce overseeing government relationships and LED development, while furthering her studies in environmental engineering, specialising in waste, water and energy disciplines coupled to Carbon Reduction Project Development (Illinois and GHG Protocol). Armed with “practical knowledge” the once “wannabe activist” evolved into a strategist in developing carbon reduction projects in the waste and energy spaces. Dean is currently driving decarbonisation project development mainly in South Africa and the SADC. From the energy sector she is championing the Nascent Disruptor Energy Storage in Africa, which has the greatest potential for unlocking the value chain and localisation for Africa.

She is board member of SAIEE, SAREC, and SAESA; spokesperson for SAESA and Vice Chair of SAREC, Vice Chair SAIEEE Storage Chapter, and member of numerous Energy and Carbon Committees with government on renewable energy, storage, decarbonisation, and GHG targets all spilling into the Just Energy Transition.