Mr Ahid Maeresera is currently serving as Technical Manager for the COMESA implemented Regional Energy Access Acceleration Platform (REAAP), a component of the Accelerating Sustainable and Clean Energy Transformation (ASCENT) Program, a USD5billion World Bank initiative aimed at providing electricity connections to 100million people in Eastern and Southern Africa by 2030. The REAAP is a regional Technical Assistance program aimed at providing support to 20+ country specific ASCENT programs across different thematic areas including digitalisation, project preparation, clean cooking, carbon finance, energy access surveys, gender mainstreaming and policy and regulatory reviews among others. His experience includes work as Section Engineer Process Control at Hwange Thermal Power Station in Zimbabwe. Project Manager for two projects, the Online Intelligent Condition Monitoring System and the Online Performance Monitoring Systems for all Eskom South
Africa’s 15 thermal power stations. He then left Eskom and joined AUDA-NEPAD seconded to SADC in Gaborone Botswana as the Infrastructure Technical Expert the position he held till he joined REAAP. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics from the National University of Science and Technology Zimbabwe, a Master’s degree in Business Administration with the same university and a Master’s degree in Finance (Economic Policy) with University of London.