Off-Grid Solar and Public-Private Sector Interventions - with Dr. Iwona Bisaga

Dr. Iwona Bisaga is a Research Associate at Loughborough University on the Modern Energy Cooking Services Programme where she leads research on humanitarian energy access. Prior to that, she was a Research Associate at University College London where she worked on resilient recovery of displaced communities in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. She also worked with Chatham House- a UK international affairs think tank, where she led on the harmonization of humanitarian energy access indicators.

Iwona completed her PhD at University College London on energy access through decentralized solutions with a focus on off-grid solar energy in Rwanda. She then went on to head the research department at Bboxx- a provider of off-grid energy systems in Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia. Having worked at NGOs in Madagascar and Ecuador, and at Engineers without Borders UK where she managed energy access and water, sanitation and hygiene programmes globally, she has a diverse experience cutting across non-profit, private and policy sectors, and academia.