Safiatou Nana

Safiatou Nana is a Burkinabè renewable solar energy engineer and entrepreneur. She has focused her research and work on producing energy in rural communities through off-grid solar-powered systems. Nana was named one of the "5 African innovators to watch in 2019 and beyond" by One due to her work on a mobile solar powered water pumping system. Education Nana gained her BSc in Electrical Engineering at the Institut International d'Ingénierie de l'Eau et de l'Environnement (2iE) in 2014 before gaining her MSc in Renewable Energy Engineering at The Pan African University Institute of Water and Energy Sciences (including Climate Change) (PAUWES) in 2016. Work Renewable Energy Safiatou worked as an assistant energy engineer in 2014 with PPS (Project Production Solaire) Sarl. She focused on the design, cost analysis and technical feasibility of off-grid solar energy systems for remote sites. In 2016 Safiatou worked as a junior engineer at the Kwame Nkrumah' University of Science and Technology. She focused on assessment of bio-methane production from waste in order to research utilization of slaughter wastes potential towards energy self-sufficiency. From 2016 to 2017 Safiatou was a community manager for the African Network for Solar Energy - ANSOLE.