Angela Homsi, Founder and President of awards-winning Ignite Power, is dedicated to solving global challenges through innovation. With Ignite, she pioneers innovative infratech solutions, ensuring universal access to clean infrastructure in emerging markets, reaching 2.8 million people across ten countries. Ignite is the proud winner of the Zayed Sustainability Prize (Energy) awarded at COP28, and project awardee of IRENA fifth cycle. Angela also chairs the Africa Innovation Fund and serves on the IC of Microvest Capital. Previously she spent over a decade as investor at VP Al Gore’s 40bn$ sustainable investment fund Generation and at Goldman Sachs, developing deep experience in sustainability, tech and emerging markets’ investing. Angela's nonprofit work included leadership roles with Seeds of Peace, YPO, NSI and track II initiatives and working alongside Sir Ronald Cohen in post conflict countries. She is also an avid lecturer and news contributor. A mathematician and economics scholar, she's also a Singularity University Executive Graduate, she speaks French, English, and some Spanish, Arabic and Hebrew.