Dr. Maged Mahmoud is a sustainable energy expert and the Technical Director of the Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE). He has multidisciplinary expertise and solid accomplishments in the fields of sustainable energy transition in the Egyptian, Arab and African arenas. Dr Mahmoud played a key role in helping Arab countries from North Africa and the Middle East to formulate renewable energy (RE) strategies and to introduce implementation mechanisms for increased reliance on private sector. Dr. Mahmoud contributed to shaping concrete regional initiatives endorsed by the Arab Ministerial Council of Electricity. He is continuously assisting several Arab countries to prepare and execute national sustainable energy action plans and introducing several business models and instruments to support both utility- and small-scale developers, and to assess the socio-economic impacts.
Dr. Mahmoud was an official in the Egyptian New and Renewable Energy Authority for around 15 years where he contributed significantly to setting the Egyptian renewable energy strategies, and in the design of the “best-fit” policies for implementation. He deeply contributed to planning and contracting several hundreds megawatts of wind energy projects amounting to more than 700 million USD. Further, he participated in developing the quality infrastructure for testing solar thermal and energy efficiency systems in Egypt.
Over the past 25 years, Dr. Mahmoud has managed and contributed to over 40 research projects and studies in the sustainable energy fields in collaboration with international organizations (WB, IRENA, ESCWA, UNDP, UNEP, etc.), spanning fundamental technology development, systems-level integration, local manufacturing, market assessments and policy issues.