Wave Energy CEO Included In UN Tribute To Women Change Makers 

Inna Braverman, the founder and CEO of Eco Wave Power, an Israeli company that uses waves to create energy, has been included in a United Nations exhibition to honor female change makers around the world. 

Braverman’s portrait is among the ones featured in the interactive art exhibition that opened at the start of the month in the visitors lobby at the United Nations headquarters in New York. 

The exhibition, titled “Portraits of Progress: Women Leaders Powering the Global Goals,”  runs until March 22. 

Eco Wave Power’s system transfers the motion of ocean waves to power stations on land using its uniquely shaped floating devices, which rise and fall with the waves’ up-and-down motion and the changes in water levels. 

The power stations convert the energy into fluid pressure used to spin a generator, producing electricity. 

The company’s EWP-EDP One power station was officially connected to the Israeli national grid in August 2023.  

“I am extremely proud to be featured in this exhibition with inspirational female leaders. Research shows that women are still largely underrepresented in the technological sector,” said Braverman.

“We only represent 1 percent of leadership positions in the combined science, technology, engineering, and mathematics sector, and we also get only 2 percent of the world’s venture capital funding. As a result, the… recognition here at the United Nations is a powerful statement that women are meant to play a critical role in achieving the UN SDGs [Sustainable Development Goals].”