CEBC MENA

This episode hosts Kristin R. White, Executive Director ǀ Connected & Automated Vehicles Office (CAV-X) and Dr. Ismail Zohdy, Programme Manager of Self-Driving Transport Strategy at Dubai Road and Transport Authority (RTA). In this episode of the CEBC MENA podcast, Michael Carrol discusses the future of autonomous vehicles in both the US and the Middle East with the two experts. The episode touches on different topics including the current strategies for autonomous vehicles in Dubai and Minnesota, challenges and the people's perception to AVs and how to change it and when we expect to see fully AVs on the roads among other topics.

In this episode, Sam Alawiye, CEO of GreenParking discusses electric vehicle infrastructure in the UAE, the role of public private partnerships in accelerating the EV infrastructure market and how GreenParking has contributed to the development of the EV market in the UAE.

This episode's partner is generously sponsored by GreenParking.

In this episode, Dr. Joanna Moody, Research Program Manager at MIT Energy Initiative's Mobility Systems Center, discusses her research on the people's mobility behavior in the US and the MENA regions and how different they are and her research survey on the so-called "Car Pride" across the US and the MENA countries and how this is constructed.

This episode's partner is MIT Mobility Initiative and generously sponsored by The Hollings Center for International Dialogue.

In this episode of the CEBC MENA Podcast, our guest speakers discuss the recent technological developments in new energy vehicles in the USA and the MENA regions, the impact of these technological advancements on the adoption rate of these new energy vehicles, the life cycle emissions from those different new energy vehicles in both regions and which technology is predicted to be more mainstream in each region.

Guest speakers are:

- Randell Field, Executive Director at Mobility Systems Center - MIT Energy Initiative.

- Dr. Rubal Dua, Research Fellow at Kind Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC)

This episode's partner is MIT Mobility Initiative and generously sponsored by The Hollings Center for International Dialogue.

In this episode, our guest experts discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the public transit and shared mobility sectors in both the MENA and the USA regions. They discuss the impact from different angels including the people's mobility behaviour, role of the government policies, the role of technology and other interesting aspects.

Our guest speakers for this episode are Dr. Ayman Smadi, Director of MENA and Center for Transport Excellence at the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) and Prof. Jinhua Zhao, Director of MIT Mobility Initiative and Professor of City & Transportation Planning at MIT.

This episode is in partnership with MIT and sponsored by the Hollings Center for International Dialogue.

In this first episode of our second season of the CEBC MENA Podcast we dive into the electric vehicle (EV) market in the MENA region covering the policy landscape, technologies and consumer behavior across the region as well as the current challenges and opportunities from awareness, policy and infrastructure perspectives. In this episode we have Dr. Ahmed Elguindy, co-founder of Nexus Analytica (Egypt) and Salman Hussien, Chief Product Officer of EV Lab (UAE).

In this episode, Dr. Rabia Ferroukhi of IRENA and Martha Broad of MIT Energy Initiative walk us through their personal career achievements, the challenges they faced as women in the clean energy sector and the work their organizations have been doing to encourage women to consider a career in the clean energy sector.

Sustainable Development Goal 5 places the achievement of gender equality and empowerment of all women and girls at the heart of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. Renewables can play a significant role in this respect. As a powerful vehicle for development, they can have a transformative impact on the inclusion and livelihoods of women, including in the access context.

The first season of the podcast focuses on the issues and challenges facing women in the clean energy sector. The season consists of valuable interviews with distinguished and accomplished women leaders in clean energy sector from across the MENA region and the United States.

Parimita Mohanty, Renewable Energy Programme Management Officer at UNEP Asia Pacific Office, joined us to discuss "Women in Renewable Energy for Sustainable development". We discussed reasons why women are under-represented in decision-making processes related to resource management and environment. We clarified how women’s vulnerability to climate change in the developing world is exacerbated. We then pin-pointed career initiation and advancement barriers that women face in the renewable energy sector. We also talked about the trendy but controversial gender quotas and expressed our raw opinions on them!

For this episode, Rim Boukhchina,head of Sustainable Energy Policies and Member States Support Unit at Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE), joined us to discuss the topic of "Women in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Sector".

In this special episode, we were joined by Ruba Al Zubi to discuss women and leadership. We chatted about how women navigate power structures and how women can build long-term resiliency and confidence in any stage of their career.