Damilola Asaleye

Damilola is the Chief Operating Officer and co founder of Ashdam Solar Company Limited. Damilola is the lead instructor of Ashdam Solar Academy, a subsidiary of Ashdam Solar Company Limited aimed at improving the technical know-how of renewable energy practitioners in Nigeria with international standards and have trained more than 500 practitioners to be successful technically inclined solar PV installers and entrepreneurs. Damilola is also a part time adjunct lecturer at Atiba University, a private university in Oyo state where she teaches Environment and Sustainable Development as a general studies course.

Being actively involved in a male dominated industry, Damilola have experienced gender discrimination first hand and as a way to change the narrative of the society as regards to the role of women in energy industry, she founded Ashdam Solar Initiave (now registered as Girls and Women Technological Empowerment Organisation) where she empowers and mentor girls/women to be bold renewable energy leaders, climate change ambassadors and energy efficiency advocates. Damilola is the conveyer of Green Tech Girls summer bootcamp, a summer camp focused on empowering girls in areas of green technologies such as renewable energy technology introduction, waste up cycling, clean cooking, energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. She is the initiator of Solar Queen Technical Scholarship program. A program focused on empowering women with technical skills that are required to be successful climate ambassadors, solar energy installers and green entrepreneurs. Damilola have empowered more than 1370 girls and 180 women through her initiatives. Damilola is concluding her doctoral research in Energy Engineering with specialty in renewable energy microgrid and demand side management. She has international research publications on renewable energy topics. Damilola is a TechWomen Fellow, an Open Africa Scholar , a Robert Bosch Alumni, a Ashoka Change Maker Xchange fellow, she was recognized as one of the foremost women in Renewable Energy Nigeria by the Environment Magazine in the year 2017 and was also awarded the Energy Professional of the year 2018 by the Nigeria Energy Awards. Her collaborative project named Solar 4 girls Naija was also nominated as world finalist for the world energy globe award 2017.