John Scicchitano

John Scicchitano is the Managing Director of Pangea Global Ventures, a company that promotes African private sector growth and builds bridges between investors and opportunities. He has served as an Advisor to Ashesi University’s Ghana Climate Innovation Center as an adjust professor at the State University of New York. Previously, he was appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo as Director at The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority where he built innovative public-private-philanthropic partnerships (PPPP) to invest in solar, efficiency, workforce, and other opportunities generated by New York’s Green New Deal. John has also served in an appointment at the United States Department of Agriculture, managing global hunger activities in the Office of Food for Peace. He has worked at USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, and with the non-profit organizations World Vision, World Relief, and the International Rescue Committee. Over 15 years of his career were spent in Africa in Burkina Faso, Chad, Senegal, Burundi, Rwanda, and Kenya. Prior to his international assignments, John worked as an Environmental Engineer with the global consulting firm Environ. John has an Executive Masters in Leadership from the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business and a B.S.E. in Civil Engineering and Operations Research from Princeton University. He has been recognized by the United Nations as an expert in strategy and partnership, publishes articles in peer-reviewed journals, and speaks to diverse audiences such as the BBC, Green Investing Summit, and the British Parliament Committee on International Development.