Accelerating Africa's clean mobility transition.

A practitioner, not just an advisor

Vome Aghoghovbia-Gafaar is a sustainable transport and electric mobility specialist with experience across Europe and Africa. She has built her career at the intersection of strategy and implementation — translating net zero commitments and sustainable city targets into large-scale, operational programmes. Her work spans the electrification of complex heavy-duty and municipal fleets, charging infrastructure design, depot transformation, and the integration of energy and transport systems at scale.

A practitioner as much as an advisor, she has direct experience managing EV infrastructure programmes, conducting financial and operational feasibility analysis, and designing the systems — procurement structures, grid solutions, operational models — that determine whether an electrification programme succeeds in practice. Her work has included contributing to a vehicle-to-grid trial that uses waste-generated energy to power an electric fleet: an approach that positions transport assets as active participants in the broader energy system.

Through Ignite Mobility Africa, she brings this implementation depth to bear on Africa's transport transition — advising governments, development finance institutions, investors, and operators on EV strategy, infrastructure deployment, and market entry across Sub-Saharan Africa. She holds a first-class MEng in Chemical Engineering and an MSc in Global Management of Natural Resources, both from University College London.