Pelosse, a French citizen who was born in Montreal, Canada, was elevated to IRENA’s top position in June 2009, beating candidates championed by Denmark, Spain and Greece.
After the agency was founded in January 2009, the trickle of signatories soon became a tsunami. A year later, the Czech Republic became its 139th member state.
Pelosse’s “very first priority” is the prosaic task of establishing the organisation’s secretariat in the zero-emissions Masdar
