Sandra Chukwudozie is a Nigerian female entrepreneur and clean energy activist. She is the Founder and CEO of Salpha Energy; and executive director at Dozzy Group. She is the daughter of Nigerian business magnate Sir Daniel Chukwudozie. Sandra is a Forbes Africa 30 under 30 Lister.

Early life and education

Chukwudozie grew up with entrepreneurial parents (

Daniel Chukwudozie Daniel Nwanneka Chukwudozie , (born 2 January 1957) is a Nigerian entrepreneur and business man. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of Dozzy Group, which is a conglomerate of many companies of about 2000-man workforce with interests ...

and

Lady Ada Chukwudozie Lady Ada Chukwudozie MNSE (born June 7, 1972) is an entrepreneur and the chairman of the Manufacturer's Association of Nigeria-southeast region. She is the Executive Director of Dozzy Oil and Gas Limited and the Founder of Association of Pr ...

) in Nigeria who own a conglomerate spanning multiple industries; manufacturing, oil, and gas, power generation and real estate. She graduated from the

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in July 2014, with a

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in economics and political science. She also earned a

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in international oil and gas management from the University of Dundee (Centre for Energy, Petroleum & Mineral Law and Policy) in 2015. Chukwudozie is also a certified NLP Master Practitioner from the NLP Centre of New York.

Career

In 2015, Chukwudozie worked in the Office of the Director for the General Assembly and

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Affairs Division at the

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. She also worked with the

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. Sandra serves as executive director at Dozzy Group. In 2017, she founded Salpha Energy, a solar company that designs, manufactures and distributes solar power systems for homes and businesses that lack access to a reliable electrical grid in Africa. In 2021, Chukwudozie and her company qualified for the grant agreement under the

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-funded Nigeria Electrification Project (NEP). In 2022, she was listed on the

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(Energy Category).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chukwudozie, Sandra Nigerian social entrepreneurs Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Alumni of the University of Manchester