Mr. Siseho C Simasiku

CEO -Electricity Control Board
Chairman - Regional Electricity Regulator's Association

Tertiary Education
M.Sc. Nuclear Power Plants, Slovak Technical University, Bratislava Czechoslovakia;

Professional Background
Mr. Simasiku has extensive experience of more than twenty years in the engineering field of which the last twelve years have been at policy and regulatory level in the energy sector. He started his career lecturing at the University of Zambia, School of Engineering. After working for a number of other organisations in Zambia he returned to Namibia to work at the Ministry of Works, Transport and Communication before joining the Ministry of Mines and Energy. He started at the Ministry in 1993 as a Chief Energy Research. His focus was to promote renewable energy development, resulting in a chapter on renewable's being included in the Energy Policy of Namibia. He was later promoted to the position of Director of Energy where he was the initiator of the drafting of the Energy Policy and the integrated approach to energy development. He was eventually appointed to the position of Permanent Secretary or Chief Executive Officer of the Ministry.

His key responsibilities amongst others constituted the following: providing strategic vision and leadership to the Ministry of Mines and Energy, initiating and translating policy and policy directives, initiating and administration of the National Energy Policy; ensuring a good and favourable private sector investment climate in the Energy sector; inter-facing with energy and mining sector stakeholders; initiating the development and integration of policies on the renewable energy sector into the National Energy Policy.

He is at present also the Chairman of the Regional Electricity Regulators Association of Southern Africa (RERA). He has chaired and been on various boards of public and private companies. He has attended various conferences, workshops and seminars on energy and mining. Has played key role in many SADC energy projects and is now member of the Namibian National Energy Council (NEC) and ESI steering committee. He also serves as a member of the Geology Advisory Board at the University of Namibia. He is also member of the International Who's Who Historical Society.