GUEST: DR. GAMUCHIRAI MUTEZO - Chief Operations Officer and Director of Circular Business Models at the African Circular Business Alliance (ACBA) & Founder of Madam Waste

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Decentralised Energy Systems (Biogas) I Organic Waste Management I Circular Economy  

Dr Gamuchirai Mutezo has 12 years of work experience underpinned by entrepreneurship, project management, renewable energy, and a keen focus on decentralising energy in African cities using anaerobic digestion. She is the Director of Circular Business Models at the African Circular Business Alliance (ACBA) and oversees the company’s daily business operations. Some of her duties include directing conversations, collaborations and co-creating circular business models and decarbonisation pathways to build a sustainable, profitable and scalable circular market in the African green economy and clean energy sub-sectors.

Her skill set includes but is not limited to project management and strategic planning, business operations and development, stakeholder management, leading teams to achieve deliverables, problem-solving, resilience and tenacity, peculiar attention to detail, ability to probe for quality, excellent communication skills (written and oral), flexibility to operate in different environments as well as empathy. She holds a B. Town and Regional Planning from the University of Pretoria, an MPhil in Energy Poverty and Development from the University of Cape Town, a Project Management Certificate from the University of South Africa and a DPhil in Urban Biogas and Circular Economy from the University of the Witwatersrand. Dr Gamuchirai Mutezo is also a member of the South African Biogas Industry Association (SABIA), South African Planning Institute (SAPI) and Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN).

Dr Gamuchirai Mutezo is the founder of Madam Waste, an urban energy planning firm based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Services offered span across urban energy planning, organic waste management and decentralised clean energy using anaerobic digestion. Using principles of circular economy, Madam Waste endeavours to constantly view waste not in its traditional sense of a disposable material, but as a resource for other activities. She is also a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Ecological Intelligence (University of Johannesburg) focusing on agro-ecological waste management and circular economy.