There are four candidates for the position of Director General, all of whom are from Europe. From France, Helene Pelosse - currently Deputy Head of Staff in charge of international affairs in the Private Office of the Minister of State; the Spanish candidate, Juan Ormazabal Jordana, currently the Director General of the Centro Nacional de Energías Renovables (CENER); and Hans Jorgen Koch of Denmark, who currently serves as the Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Climate and Energy of the Danish Energy Agency.
The fourth candidate is Professor Arthouros Zervos of Greece, a Faculty Member at the Mechanical Engineering Department of the National Technical University of Athens and President of the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC). His candidature is being strongly supported by EREC and many renewable industry associations.
There are four proposed locations for the Agency’s headquarters, with Germany, Austria, Denmark, and Masdar City in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) all offering to host the agency.
IRENA already represents over half the countries in the world
The list of Member States is growing by the day. On 19 June, only five months after it was founded in Bonn (Germany), IRENA welcomed its 100th Member State – Bangladesh; while this week has seen Georgia, the Republic of Cameroon, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei Darussalam, Iraq, and the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya signing IRENA’s Founding Treaty.
IRENA now has 110 Signatories and more States are expected to sign in the near future.
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