Manuel Barron is an assistant professor of economics at Universidad del Pacifico in Peru. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Oxford (MSc) and the University of California Berkeley (PhD). His research centres on three areas in development economics: energy and environment, human capital, and firms. Cutting across these topics, he investigates gender issues and behavioural biases – particularly those that are exacerbated by the weaker institutions of developing regions.
Rowan Philip Clarke is a researcher with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), an international network of researchers who use randomised evaluations to discover effective solutions to global poverty problems. He is a researcher and graduate student at both the Environmental Policy Research Unit (EPRU) and the Research Unit in Behavioural Economics and Neuroeconomics (RUBEN), in the School of Economics, University of Cape Town.
Soma Dutta is a Senior Technical Advisor with ENERGIA, International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy, working on cross-cutting issues of gender, poverty, and development in the context of energy access. She supports policymakers, practitioners, governments, NGOs, and international organisations in project planning; socioeconomic, institutional and policy analysis; and capacity building. Until 2017, she led ENERGIA’s Scaling up Energy Access through Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) programme, which, through partner organisations in Africa and Asia, supports 4,300 women’s micro and small energy enterprises. She has also been providing technical support to energy sector programmes, including those of GIZ, the EU, UNDP, and UNESCAP.
Amanda B. Elam is Diana International Research Fellow at Babson College, USA, and President/CEO/Cofounder of Galaxy Diagnostics, a medical diagnostics company in North Carolina. With over 25 years of experience in the study of gender, entrepreneurship, and innovation, her research interests focus on the application of sociological theories to the study of business start-up, innovation, and growth across countries and social groups. Her publications include Gender and Entrepreneurship: A Multilevel Theory and Analysis, recognised for innovative thought leadership in entrepreneurship by the Academy of Management. She has published widely and presented findings at international development conferences. She also advises small businesses in the life sciences.
Allie Glinski is a Senior Gender and Evaluation Specialist at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). She has more than ten years of research, programme, and advocacy experience focused on women’s economic empowerment, gender equity in the workplace, value chain gender integration, gender-smart impact investing, gender and clean energy, social enterprise development, and monitoring and evaluation. She holds an MA in international development with a concentration in global health from the George Washington University and a BA in English and Psychology from the University of Michigan.
Rebecca A. Klege is a researcher at the Environmental Policy Research Unit (EPRU), University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research interests include experimental economics, energy, poverty, and climate change-related issues. She has experience in designing behavioural solutions for energy and environmental goods. She recently concluded the design and implementation of a series of lab experiments in rural Rwanda focusing on gender, energy, and entrepreneurship as part of her PhD research.
Annemarije Kooijman-van Dijk is the Coordinator of the Gender and Energy Research Programme at ENERGIA, International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy hosted by Hivos, based in The Netherlands. She is engaged in the management and coordination of research, and also in the support of research uptake in energy policy and practice. Annemarije holds a PhD on productive uses of energy from the University of Twente.
Rebecca Pearl-Martinez has worked in energy and climate governance for two decades, with a focus on the research–policy nexus. As a consultant to international organisations, Rebecca provides technical support on the social dimensions of renewable energy and climate policy. She was Research Fellow at the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy and Visiting Lecturer on climate governance at Tufts University. Her doctoral research at Durham University focuses on financial instruments deployed in Latin America for utility-scale solar and wind energy. Rebecca is the 2016 recipient of the C3E Advocacy Award from the US Department of Energy and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Mar Maestre is a senior consultant with the public policy research and evaluation team at ICF. Previously, she worked as Research Officer at IDS. She is a social scientist and has worked on projects related to private sector development, market systems, value chain analysis, and gender for over ten years. Her research uses systems thinking and participatory and qualitative methods to understand the different market pathways towards sustainable and equitable outcomes (such as gender equality). Her current projects focus women’s economic empowerment, inclusive business, and food policy.
Ana Pueyo is a Research Fellow at IDS, where she leads research on Energy and Development with a regional focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Her interests centre on the social impacts of energy access and on the macroeconomic, social, and political conditions that enable investment in renewable energy. She holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid and an MSc on Management of Information Systems from the London School of Economics. She is a technical advisor for the ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency and a technical consultant advising European governments, businesses, and NGOs on energy and environmental policy.
Anita Shankar PhD is an Associate Scientist at Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA. Her 25 years of research and programme work has addressed a range of health and development issues including women’s empowerment, gender-based violence, maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, nutrition, community mobilisation, and human resource capacity building. A current focus of her work is the nexus of gender, energy and economic development. She is a lead author on the Empowered Entrepreneur Training Handbook (2015, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves). She serves as the director of a global training programme on the empowerment of women and men in the energy sector.
Martine Visser is a Professor in the School of Economics, University of Cape Town, South Africa and holds a PhD from Gothenburg University. She is a Research Chair with the African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) and is associated with various units within the School of Economics, including the Environmental Policy Research Unit (EPRU), the Research Unit in Behavioural Economics and Neuroeconomics Research (RUBEN), and the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU). She specialises in behavioural economic applications to climate change, natural resource use, health, and poverty alleviation. She is interested in how social norms and preferences such as trust, cooperation and risk aversion impact on decision making.