Introduction and keynote

Chair: Gordon MacKerron (Director of SPRU, University of Sussex, UK)

Welcome comments from Gordon MacKerron, Nafees Meah (Department of Energy and Climate Change, UK) and Ed Brown (University of Loughborough, UK)

Keynote Speaker: Kevin Urama (African Technology Policy Studies Network, Kenya)

Session 1

The development benefits of low-carbon energy access: What is the evidence?

Chair: Matthew Lockwood (Institute of Development Studies, UK)

Speakers: Teo Sanchez (Practical Action, UK), Andrew Scott (Overseas Development Institute, UK)

Session 2

Transformative energy pathways: the political economy of low carbon energy access

Chair: David Ockwell (Sussex Energy Group, University of Sussex, UK)

Speakers: Andy Stirling (SPRU and STEPS Centre, University of Sussex, UK), Linus Mofor (International Renewable Energy Agency, Germany), Peter Newell (Centre for Global Political Economy, University of Sussex, UK)

Workshop 1

Group consultations on the evidence and the challenges

Chair: Ed Brown

Drinks reception hosted by the STEPS Centre and poster competition sponsored by the Midlands Energy Graduate School

Session 3

Low carbon energy technology transfer, development and poverty reduction

Chair: Alison Doig (Christian Aid, UK)

Speakers:

Heleen de Coninck (Energy research Centre of the Netherlands), Ambuj Sagar (Indian Institute of Technology, India), Ana Pueyo (Institute of Development Studies, UK)

Break

Session 4

Financing sustainable energy for all: what works, and what needs to change?

Chair: Mafalda Duarte (African Development Bank, Tunisia)

Speakers: Neil Jeffery (Renewable World, UK), Shiva Susarla (Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore), Smita Nakhooda (Overseas Development Institute, UK)

Workshop 2

Group discussion identifying follow-on workshops, partnerships and research priorities 

Chair: Nafees Meah

Round up and closing  

Chair: Jim Watson (Director of the Sussex Energy Group, SPRU, University of Sussex, UK)