Avra Moodley Email & Phone Number

Accomplished lawyer with business acumen and international relations experience holding an MBA and over 20 years’ experience providing strategic legal advice in energy, infrastructure, procurement, corporate/commercial and banking/finance to both government and the private sector. Board experience. Extensive national/international experience in investment and development in sub-Saharan Africa. Strategic leadership and enhancement of organisations. With the objective of enhancing sustainability and resilience in metro energy businesses, my work focusses on facilitating procurement of new generation capacity, new business models, designing procurement programmes for private sector investment and stakeholder management. I also assisted Operation Vulindlela with key strategic structural reforms in the energy sector.Prior experience includes being a specialist Legal Advisor at the Independent Power Producers (IPP) Office, Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) with unique knowledge and experience in the design, drafting, evaluation and implementation of Government energy programmes for investment (Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers (IPP) Procurement Programme ; Small Projects IPPPP; Coal Baseload IPP Procurement Programme; Avon and Dedisa Peaking plants; Gas IPP Procurement Programme). Adept at providing strategic legal, regulatory and policy advice by proposing recommendations to create advantages for market development and to facilitate investment in the country (both at a national and a municipal level) through energy infrastructure. Advisory on sustainable development to balance Governmental objectives including localisation, job creation particularly in the face of a just transition, enterprise development; preferential procurement (women and youth), supplier development for community inclusion and benefit.Leading financial close of several renewable energy projects.

Listed skills include Negotiation, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Management, and 45 others.