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City Press reports that former Eskom boss André de Ruyter has landed a job at one of the leading US universities.
De Ruyter, who vacated his post at Eskom on 28 February, will join Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, as a visiting senior fellow at the end of this month. De Ruyter will lecture at three institutions of Yale, namely the School of Management, the Jackson School of Global Affairs and the School of the Environment. His classes will deal with topics such as renewable energy and the green economy. At the request of Yale, Eskom’s green power programme, known as the Just Energy Transition (JET), will be a focal point in his lectures. This programme gained momentum during De Ruyter’s term and enabled SA to obtain more than R150 billion worth of financing for green energy projects. After his departure from Eskom, De Ruyter and his family went on a long holiday abroad. He said it was “invigorating” to relax for five months after the high-pressure job. As far as his philosophy on teaching is concerned, De Ruyter wants to try to keep his classes understandable and practical, without being superficial.
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