Petra Dobmeier was born on 15th September 1965 in Bavaria, Germany. She is the Co-Founder and Vice President of AGROPARK, an international renewable energy association. Founded in 2003 in France, its primary goal is the realization of projects associated with climate change and renewable energies.

AGROPARK is also involved in various solar programmes, including solar electricity for lighting, e-scooter transport, and solar electricity for IT and TV access. The home electricity kit is part of the 'Petra House’, where children can explore their own ability to live in an ecological and economic way. In 2006, in the French Riviera, La Petite Ferme [the Euro Farm] family will operate a renewable energy and food programme, which will be open to the public.

Petra’s prior experience was in the medical field marketing for numerous multinational companies. In 1996 she participated in the ‘Solar Brazil’ project, to enable access to potable drinking water and purification systems on Brazilian farms, to empower young people to make use of their resources through solar power.

For 20 years she has lived with her partner, a creative engineer and they have traveled the world, working on technological and ecological innovations in countries throughout Africa, Europe and South America. Petra is never without her screwdrivers in her beauty case – and is always ready to use them.

In 2008, they will move to China to set up a high-tech AGROPARK and Petra is in the process of learning Chinese, to add to her German, French and English. Her interests include music from Central and South America – reminding her of the times she lived in Florida and South America.