For the earlier version of the journal, Windpowernl spoke to a number of younger professionals who’re a part of the East Meets West community to listen to their expertise in taking part in a job within the Dutch vitality transition and the significance of data sharing between totally different nationalities. Whereas we launched the community in an earlier article, we’re additionally presenting interviews that had been recorded with particular person members. On this article we introduce Oana Barabula from Romania.
Oana is initially from Romania. Impressed by travelling and assembly new folks, she left her residence nation to maneuver to Germany the place she accomplished a bachelor diploma in Enterprise Administration Finance and Administration. Working half time for a pharmaceutical firm on non-financial sustainability reporting obtained her to realize extra data on sustainability and that what is expounded to this, equivalent to system pondering and life cycle. She discovered a nicely rated one-year grasp of International Enterprise and Sustainability at Rotterdam College of Administration and determined to maneuver to the Netherlands. Whereas initially intending to maneuver again to Germany, she felt in love with the Netherlands and stayed right here. She discovered the nation to be fairly sustainability oriented and pro-active in issues regarding local weather change and the vitality transition. Or in her personal phrases: she realized extra within the Netherlands on these matters than anyplace else she had been earlier than.
A part of the Dutch vitality transition
Oana at present works for an vitality firm. Right here she will get the possibility to be a part of the vitality transition. She is attempting to grasp the complexity of all the availability chains on this area and the interconnection between all environmental, social, political and economical elements. There are such a lot of vitality transitions and opinions, she realized. In her position she is attempting to take a look at all of this with a vital eye, to see what’s viable or not, what’s a good suggestion, what’s a brief time period, transitional answer, and what’s right here to remain. When trying on the key parts of sustainability, affordability and safety, there’s hardly a single, all-encompassing answer for the vitality transition, she realises. Within the meantime Oana is determining how she will use her management expertise to guide this alteration in the direction of a greater vitality portfolio for the world.
Is she planning to return to her residence nation and play a job within the vitality transition there? As she accidently entered this space, Oana has not actively considered that. Nonetheless, she thinks she can be contributing to her nation by working within the vitality transition right here, within the Netherlands.
Being a younger skilled working within the vitality transition, she usually will get requested the query what she thinks younger professionals may do to have a extra energetic voice. She would really like folks to be acceptant of the complexity of the vitality transition and embrace it. It’s not a matter of selecting wherein vitality supply to speculate. It is usually in regards to the many industries and international locations that have to work collectively. All international locations are related and must take care of the identical matters as provide chain, vitality safety, and monetary issues. Folks all around the world needs to be extra open minded and demanding to concepts and take a look at feasibility.
Generally younger professionals within the vitality enterprise are so passionate and blinded, she thinks. Whereas it’s good to have the drive to vary the vitality sector, we have to additionally ask the query whether or not we’re devising one thing for ourselves or for the entire world, since not all international locations are remodeling on the identical price. The vitality transition is tough. We must be affected person however on the identical time laborious working and bold to make the vitality transition occur, she believes.
The East Meets West community is an initiative by  Vitality Funding Administration. Watch the interview with Oana under. The interview was achieved by iMarketingBiz by order of Windpowernl. Learn/watch additionally the interview with East Meets West member Mónica Yus Santana and Dawid Gidaszewski.
