Dr Robert Sogbadji

Dr Robert Sogbadji is Deputy Director for Renewable Energy and Green Transition at Ghana’s Ministry of Energy and Green Transition, where he works on the country’s renewable energy programmes and energy transition planning. In May 2026 he set out the Ministry’s plans to move beyond pilot projects to large-scale deployment of solar power, mini-grids and rooftop solar, and to introduce a national net-metering framework that would let households and businesses export surplus solar power to the grid. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Africa Energy Technology Centre (AETC).

For several years Sogbadji was Deputy Director, Power, responsible for nuclear and alternative energy at the Ministry of Energy, and Coordinator of the Ghana Nuclear Power Programme. In that role he represented Ghana in discussions with prospective nuclear vendor countries, including at the ATOMEXPO forum in Sochi in 2018, explained the programme’s site selection and vendor process, and argued that modern Generation III and III+ reactors are safe and that nuclear power would help diversify a power supply heavily dependent on gas. He has also served on the board of Nuclear Power Ghana.

Sogbadji holds a BSc in physics from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (2005), an MPhil in nuclear engineering from the University of Ghana (2008) and a PhD in nuclear physics from Université Paris-Sud (Paris XI), awarded in 2012 for a thesis on recycling americium in pressurised water reactors and on converting Ghana’s miniature neutron source research reactor from highly enriched to low enriched uranium. He has been a research scientist with the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission since 2009 and has lectured at the University of Ghana’s School of Nuclear and Allied Sciences since 2012, with research interests in fast reactors and nuclear fuel management.

He co-chaired the committee that drafted Ghana’s national energy policy, facilitated the Ministry’s partnership with UNIDO on industrial energy efficiency, and is a member of the National Energy Transition Committee. He has presented Ghana’s Energy Transition Framework, which puts the cost of the transition to 2070 at about US$562 billion, and has argued that it must be co-financed by multilateral development banks, development partners and private investors and carried through in every region and district. He has also urged Members of Parliament to champion renewable energy projects and climate finance in their constituencies.