Sohel Ahmed

Managing Director, Grameen Shakti
Bangladesh

Sohel Ahmed is the Managing Director of Grameen Shakti, one of the leading social business in the world, founded by Nobel laureate Prof. Mohammad Yunus, with an aim of improving “Access to Energy”. Sohel has more than a decade of experience of working in the field of Renewable Energy, have expertise of modelling and managing large development projects, as well as investment planning and advocacy on renewable energy and social business.

Sohel is also spearheading “Consultancy & Knowledge Practice” cell in GS that has executed or implementing various development projects, notable among them are (a) peer-to-peer solar electricity trading (UN DESA) (b) Eco-village Development (Danish Project) (c) WePOWER (World Bank) (d) Energy Transition etc. In 2021, Sohel has been nominated as a member of the High-Level Dialogue
Technical Committee on “Energy Access” of UN. Currently he is working as an active member of the Steering Committee of WePOWER, a forum of World Bank promoting women participation in power sector. In 2022, Sohel has received the “Individual Achievement Award” from WePOWER. World Bank platform.