Yolanda De Lange | Managing Director
Institute of Energy Professionals Africa

Yolanda de Lange is an active member of the AEE, SAEEC, MVCA and SAFEE. She holds the position of founding and executive director of IEPA, AEE Global Leadership Committee Member, SAQA Assessor, AEE International Exam Proctor. Yolanda has actively worked in the resource efficiency industry for over 23 years. With a diploma in Journalism, she was editor at Crown Publications for 13 years of Sparks Electrical News and later Electricity+Control magazines, in which time she launched the Energy Efficiency Made Simple series of handbooks. During this time, she was part of the marketing team assisting the start-up of the Southern African Energy Efficiency Confederation – SAEEC (previously SAEE) and the Profibus User Group Association. For over 15 years Yolanda has been involved in managing the operations of the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) training partner and Certification activities in the Sub-Saharan African region at Energy Training Foundation, recently renamed as Institute of Energy Professionals Africa (IEPA) NPC. Yolanda has experience in student mentorship, training and skills development project management and project development, curriculum development, certification processing and process development and control, amongst other energy training related matters. IEPA is dedicated to capacity building in the energy and resource efficiency industry through training, mentoring, assessing individuals towards professional occupations that contribute to job creation whilst limiting the impact on the environment.