Gianni Chianetta, CEO of the World Photo voltaic Council, with the founding members of the World Renewables Alliance at COP 27
Picture: GSC
The GSC has begun the seek for a brand new CEO because it prepares its advocacy and membership progress efforts main as much as COP 28 later this yr. The brand new chief will substitute Gianni Chianetta, whose three-year time period is about to finish.
Chianetta will take part within the recruitment course of and can proceed to function CEO till new management is in place. He’ll then maintain the position of a senior adviser till the top of 2023, guaranteeing a clean transition.
“It has been an honor to function CEO of GSC for the previous three years and assist drive the spectacular progress of the affiliation and the photo voltaic PV trade. It was a rewarding expertise, and I’m pleased with what we have now achieved at such a vital time, because the world urgently will increase solar energy to keep away from the worst results of local weather change and obtain ot power safety,” mentioned Chianetta. “I sit up for persevering with the robust collaboration with GSC chair Maté Heisz and supporting the brand new CEO as they take GSC’s influence to the subsequent degree.”
Launched in Paris throughout COP 21 in 2015 as the primary devoted and unified physique for the photo voltaic trade, the GSC has established itself as a serious worldwide physique bringing collectively nationwide and regional photo voltaic associations and main world company below one roof. Throughout Chianetta’s time period, the Washington-based nonprofit skilled important progress by way of cooperation with key local weather and renewable power organizations, opening new alternatives for the photo voltaic trade worldwide and strengthening on the voice of trade in key worldwide local weather boards.
“On behalf of the GSC board, I want to specific my deepest gratitude to Gianni for his dedication and imaginative and prescient all through his tenure as CEO,” mentioned Máté Heisz, GSC chair. “Because the world prepares for COP28 and strives to attain web zero emissions, GSC’s position in advocating for solar energy as a key local weather answer has by no means been extra necessary. Working with Gianni as senior adviser and the brand new CEO, we want to make the affiliation and world photo voltaic trade stronger than ever to make sure the world meets its local weather objectives.
The seek for a full-time CEO to steer the affiliation is underway, and extra info may be discovered right here: https://www.globalsolarcouncil.org/careers/
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