Unreasonable Fellows
Peter BenHur Nyeko
Cofounder & Managing Director at Mandulis Energy
Peter BenHur is an Unreasonable Fellow. Peter BenHur has participated in 3 programs, including Unreasonable GOALS 2023 (Costa Rica).
Peter co-founded Mandulis Energy, focused on new approaches to deliver energy that is affordable and sustainable, and capable of driving economic development, to power agriculture, health, rural communities & deep tech infrastructure, alongside unlocking carbon dioxide removals & storage, and sustainable aviation fuel. He leads Mandulis' development of Africa’s largest grid-tied biomass gasification power plant, as well as the off-grid REPARLE and BEPeARL Projects. BEPeARL (Bio-Energy Powering Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods) won the DFCD Scalable Climate Solutions Challenge at COP26, and is listed in ESI Africa’s top African Power & Energy projects 2022 and the Innovate UK Energy Catalyst Round 10 in 2024. Peter is an Aerospace Engineering alumnus of Bristol, IESE, École des Ponts, and Cranfield. A ballroom dancer, equestrian and thespian, Peter speaks Acholi, Arabic, French and Spanish.
