If you said that Inna Braverman has been riding a wave of humanitarian impact since all the way back in 2011, you’d be literally correct—and responsible for an absolutely awful play on words. But as CEO and co-founder of Swedish Eco Wave Power, she’s spent over a decade helping turn ocean energy into a real solution for clean power.
She’s also been a fierce advocate for women in STEM, teaming up with youth-led groups like BFly GEMS to promote girl empowerment, climate action—a personal cause to her as she was born in the Ukraine just two weeks before the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and suffered respiratory arrest due to its subsequent pollution.
In 2025, she spoke at Davos alongside Nobel laureates and tech leaders, pushing wave energy into the global spotlight. That spotlight only grew brighter when she implemented Eco Wave Power’s technology on Gaza’s coastline, and signed an agreement with Africa Great Future Development to explore wave energy projects at South Africa’s Port of Ngqura.
