Senior Strategic Growth Advisor
A retained mandate for market growth
A fixed cadence, plus the calls in between — guiding executive management on market expansion, origination strategy, and pre-qualification with key regional utilities.
Strategic Advisor & Infrastructure Board Consultant
Decades of experience across PV Solar, Wind, BESS, Hydrogen, CCGT and Desalination covering operations, construction and business development.
MS Global Energy Strategy is the independent practice of Mahabir Sharma — 46 years of energy leadership across four continents. Today, that means senior-only M&A and transaction advisory for boards, investors, and leadership teams.
46+Years in energy leadership
4Continents of operation
6Countries worked in
3Sovereign energy investment companies
01 — Executive Overview
The bridge between engineering and capital.
Mahabir Sharma is the founder of MS Global Energy Strategy, bringing 46 years of multi-gigawatt energy leadership across four continents and six countries. An IIT Roorkee-trained mechanical engineer, he has built and run power, water, and renewables businesses — including independent power and water projects (IWPPs).
His career has carried him from the emerging markets of the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, and India to the developed markets of Singapore, Spain, and the UK, working across the full technology spectrum — coal and combined-cycle gas plants to solar, wind, battery storage, hydrogen, and desalination.
Today, that experience makes him the bridge between complex engineering delivery, international asset developers, sovereign utilities, and Tier-1 EPC consortiums across the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia. What you get is direct advice from a senior executive who has negotiated the project documentation, operated the P&L, and executed the EPC, O&M and LTSA contracts himself.
02 — Core Areas of Engagement & Strategic Value
Six problems worth a phone call.
01
Corporate & portfolio strategy
Where to play, what to own, and what to exit as portfolios shift from thermal toward renewables, storage, and hydrogen.
02
Technology integration advisory
Advising leadership on high-density BESS architecture, SWRO desalination energy optimization, and hybrid utility integration — decarbonization pathways tested against real capital budgets and grids.
03
Bankability & bid governance
Translating technical designs and commissioning scopes into bankable propositions aligned with project finance standards — plus commercial risk qualification, consortium structuring, and bid oversight for utility-scale solar, BESS, and desalination tenders.
04
Regulatory & government affairs
Reading the politics of energy, and engaging regulators and ministries with credibility earned over four decades in the room.
05
Board & executive advisory
A discreet sounding board for chief executives and chairs — and, where mandated, a board or advisory-board seat of his own.
06
Developer & sovereign utility market access
Direct senior-level engagement with sovereign utilities, infrastructure funds, and Tier-1 developers to secure panel pre-qualifications and high-value mandates — then structuring the PPAs, EPC, O&M, LTSA, and concession agreements that hold.
03 — Advisory Engagement Frameworks
Scaled to the mandate.
Special Transaction & Bid Mandates
One mandate, worked to a conclusion
Milestone-driven origination and commercial direction for a specific Owner's Engineer (OE), commissioning, or technical consultancy mandate. Ends with a decision, not a deck.
Strategic Advisory Board Member / Chairman
Formal governance, taken selectively
Quarterly governance and enterprise oversight, plus senior representation on major international infrastructure bids and consortium partnerships — non-executive and advisory-board seats where deep energy judgment is decisive.
Commercial engagement principles
Advisory engagements are structured on a clean, professional consultancy basis that keeps incentives aligned.
Retainer & success equity
Fixed baseline retainers for ongoing strategic counsel and governance, plus standard market origination fees on contracts successfully awarded.
Clear scope boundaries
Focus stays on strategic governance, market positioning, and commercial origination — not operational field engineering.
Tail & integrity protections
Standard 12–18 month tail provisions and a dedicated target-client schedule safeguard originated opportunities.
04 — Selected work
Situations we know from the inside.
A sample of representative situations from four decades in the field.
AMEA Power · Renewables, West Africa
50 MW of solar, commissioned in a record 15 months
During his tenure as Chief Technical Officer, AMEA Power commissioned the Blitta PV plant in Togo — the largest utility-scale solar project in West Africa — 15 months after notice-to-proceed.
TAQA · Technical due diligence, Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Diligence on 1,000+ MW of open-cycle gas capacity
As Executive Technical Advisor, led technical due diligence on the Erbil and Sulaymaniyah open-cycle power plants, ahead of a combined-cycle expansion toward 1,500 MW.
AES · Greenfield delivery, Oman
A 427 MW power and water plant, delivered on schedule
As project manager, negotiated the power and water purchase agreement, gas supply agreement, and EPC contract for the Barka plant, then delivered it on time and passed performance acceptance testing.
05 — Contact
Begin with a conversation.
Engagements are deliberately few. If the timing isn't right, you'll hear that quickly — along with where else to look.
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+971 56 938 9988
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Advising globally from Dubai — remote and on-site
Availability
Taking a limited number of engagements for 2026–27