Kumi Naidoo energy sector. During the World Economic Forum in 2013, while Kumi Naidoo was rubbing shoulders with the world's wealthiest elites, Greenpeace activists were blocking a Shell gas station just outside the Swiss mountain resort demanding that the oil giant drops its ambitions to drill for oil in the Arctic. Naidoo regularly attends United Nations climate negotiations and advocates for increased ambitions from governments to cap emissions and vigorously move towards an energy sector based on renewables meant to help humanity avoid catastrophic climate change. In 2015 Naidoo announced that he would be leaving the post of International Executive Director in
Jay Naidoo African Trust and "Mail & Guardian" newspaper in October 2010. His most recent awards include the Kuzwayo Award from the University of Johannesburg, in November 2012, as well as an Honorary Doctorate Technology Degree in Engineering and the Built Environment from the Durban University of Technology, awarded September 2013. Jay Naidoo is married to Lucie Pagé, an award-winning French-Canadian writer and journalist, and regards his three children as his greatest achievement. Jay Naidoo Jay Naidoo (Jayaseelan Naidoo, born in 1954) is a South African politician and businessman who served as the founding General Secretary of the Congress of South African