Nnaziri Ihejirika

Nnaziri Ihejirika has several years of engineering and operations leadership experience across the downstream, upstream, and midstream sectors of Canada’s oil and gas industry with Suncor Energy. He is also the founder of Clean-Efficiency, a sustainable energy advisory and advocacy NGO. Nnaziri has a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Toronto, and an MBA in Strategy and Energy Management from the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

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