Hi everyone and welcome to our podcast in Good Company. I'm Nicola Tangen, the CEO of the Norwegian Southern Wealth Fund and your host today.

In this podcast, I talk to the leaders of some the largest and most interesting companies in the world so that you can learn what we own and meet these impressive leaders.

Today, I'm speaking to Ignacio Gallant, the executive chair of the world-leading renewable energy company, Ibadrola.

Ibrola supplies energy to close to 100 million people across the world and place an important role in the energy transition.

We own over 3% of Ibrola, translating into 2.6 billion US dollars.

Galan has led the bedrola for more than 20 years and saw early on the opportunities in the energy transition.

What does it take to reach net zero? Stay tuned.

Ignacio Galan, it's a pleasure having you here on the podcast. Thank you very much for having this opportunity to stay here in London with you today.

Fantastic.

Now you got a green tie and you've got green tea and it's all quite green. Now, where did you, and you've been a visionary when it comes to renewable energy.

Now, where did you, when did you see the light?

How did you come about?

Well, I think I joined the company.

I was in my professional life.

I was in telecoms.

I was the founder of Airtel, today, Boda, from Spain.

I was already reconverting the shipyard,

the Spanish shipyard, into aeronautics.

And I was previously as a battery engineer.

I was designing, manufacturing, and selling batteries

and making international expansion.

So I joined the company at beginning of 2001,

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