Hannah Kabir is the founder and CEO of Creeds Energy, a renewable energy services and solutions provider which installs reliable energy for the underserved and unserved in Nigeria. CREEDS has designed and installed over 300kWp solar powered grid back-up and decentralized off-grid systems for businesses, communities, healthcare centers and schools across seven states. The CREEDS model for SMEs is gaining international recognition as an “exceptionally promising clean energy investment opportunity”. In 2018, the CREEDS model on Solar Power for Small and Medium Enterprises won the USADF AllOn Nigeria Off-Grid Energy Challenge as well as the 2018 Private Financing Advisory Network’s (PFAN) second global Climate & Clean Energy Investment Forum Award held in Vienna, Austria.

Hannah has advised and consulted for national and international research institutes, development agencies, and governments on climate change, clean energy projects, rural electrification, and mini-grids in Africa. She has drafted policies and legislation for the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), the Renewable Energy Association of Nigeria (REAN), the National Council on Power (NACOP), the Nigeria Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Policy (NREEEP), and the National Assembly Committee on Power. She also contributed to the award-winning documentary on climate change, “Nowhere to Run: Nigeria’s Climate and Environmental Crisis”. Hannah holds a BSc. in Business Economics from Queen Mary University of London, a MSc. in Renewable Energy, Enterprise & Management from University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, and recently participated in INSEAD’s Social Entrepreneurship Program.