Our Team

Juliet is co-leading the Energy Storage Partnership Program. She has over 20 years operations and management experience at the World Bank and prior senior positions in the Government of Ghana working on energy sector policy, energy access, renewable energy, slum electrification, power sector reforms, utility regulation, access to modern cooking solutions, gender, as well as the design of results-based financing incentives for access to infrastructure services. Her educational background includes a Masters degree in Public Policy with a specialization in regulation and industry analysis from Harvard University, USA and a Masters degree in Energy and Environmental Economics from ENI Corporate University in Milan, Italy.

Kabir leads the Utilities for Energy Transition program focusing on enabling utility digitalization, data driven decision-making and adoption of innovative business models across the globe in World Bank client countries.  Kabir is also part of the core team for the Markets, Connectivity, and Trade program and leads the World Bank’s regional integration and power trade engagement with the Eastern Africa Power Pool.

Prior to joining ESMAP, Kabir worked in the Bank’s Energy and Extractives Global Practice in the East and Southern Africa regions, where he managed various energy sector country dialogue and investment lending and analytical projects on utility strengthening, electricity access, cross-border power trade, and renewables.

Kabir holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland and a MA in Economics from the University of Delhi.

Lucie has 24 years of experience in communications, with 16 years at the World Bank Group, including assignments with IFC in Nairobi and Dakar.  She has worked on environmental and social policies, transport and climate change, and trade and investment climate issues. 

As ESMAP’s communications lead, she is responsible for advising ESMAP teams on messaging and communication of ESMAP global knowledge products and program results; raising ESMAP’s profile in international forums and enhancing ESMAP’s digital presence; and supporting regional teams on energy subsidy reform communications.

Marie-Gisele provides integral support to the Energy Access and the World Bank Power System Planning teams. She has acted as the Sr. Executive Assistant in the Office of the Director and Sr. Director of the World Bank Energy & Extractives Global Practice.  Marie-Gisele's experience expands numerous World Bank operation systems, monitoring and evaluation, trust fund administration, and human resources related matters. Marie-Gisele is fluent in both French and English.

Marj implements front- and back-end development and oversees the overall design of the ESMAP website, subsidiary sites, and activity databases. She designs and produces the quarterly electronic newsletter; writes news for the web; and maintains ESMAP’s external contacts database.  Marj leads the coordination of all ESMAP’s Donors’ Consultative Group Meetings and all International knowledge exchange and global outreach events, such as: ESMAP Knowledge Exchange Forums in Austria, Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom; Mini Grids Learning Events in Ghana, Kenya, Myanmar, and Nigeria; and the ESMAP Geothermal International Conferences.

Mark is the co-lead of the World Bank Group’s Offshore Wind Development Program and is also part of ESMAP’s Green Hydrogen program. He has worked in the offshore renewable energy sector for all of his career. Prior to joining ESMAP, he worked in an energy and environmental consultancy, where he was leading engineering and environmental advisory teams on the design and planning of offshore wind projects. He has extensive experience in supporting the development of new offshore wind markets, having worked with the governments of: Azerbaijan, Barbados, China, Colombia, India, Jersey, Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Turkey, and Vietnam, to help establish supportive policies and undertake feasibility studies. Mark has a PhD in Offshore Renewable Energy and a degree in Aerospace Engineering, both from the University of Southampton, UK.

Mirlan will be leading the Markets, Connectivity, and Regional Trade (MARCOT) theme, within the Foundations for the Energy Transition program in ESMAP.  Mirlan brings extensive operational experience in dealing with energy connectivity and trade issues in ECA, South Asia and Africa.  He previously worked in the Africa energy unit where he led country dialogue and energy programs in several countries and served as a regional energy trade and markets focal point. In particular, he led the regional integration engagement in Southern Africa and is the program manager for the Advancing Regional Energy Transformational Projects Multi Donor Trust Fund (AREP-MDTF) for Southern and Eastern Africa, which will become an associated Trust Fund within ESMAP.

Wali is primarily responsible for trust fund administration and financial management/reporting in the ESMAP and Energy Climate Finance programs.  He comes to us from the Afghanistan Country office where he was working on the Bank’s largest single country multi-donor trust fund, the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF). Wali has extensive experience in financial management, Bank’s operational policies and procedures, disbursements and trust fund management. Over the last one year, Wali was with the South Asia Regional Integration Unit and the FCV Group on Development Assignment managing regional and global trust funds.

Nathyeli is leading the ESMAP Gender and Energy Program. Her work focuses on the inclusion of the gender perspective within Energy Sector interventions to foster women's participation in the sector, promote the use of productive uses of energy among women-owned businesses, and include more women as users of energy. Within the World Bank, she has been leading the implementation of the new Gender and Energy program globally while also providing gender technical support to the Africa region of the World Bank.  Before joining ESMAP, Nathyeli worked as a gender expert for the Inter-American Development Bank. She was also a consultant for gender and urban mobility in climate change adaptation and mitigation projects. Nathyeli holds an Economics degree from the Costa Rica University and a Master´s in Urban Economics from the Torcuato Di Tella University (Argentina).

Senior Program Assistant

Priyank is joining ESMAP as a Young Professional from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working on energy system decarbonization and climate policy issues. He brings expertise in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions from hard-to-abate sectors while exploring environmental justice and climate equity issues. Priyank consulted for the World Bank’s Transport Global Practice, where he led the Bank’s energy efficiency research program in decarbonizing maritime shipping. Priyank holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, where his doctoral work focused on evaluating the environmental, climate, and public health impacts of freight transportation systems, work supported by the National Science Foundation. Priyank also holds an M.S. in Management Science & Engineering from Columbia University, where he was an International Fellow at the School of International and Public Affairs. He did his undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, India.

Priyank has operations experience in implementing agriculture, education, and sustainability projects in Africa and South Asia. Working with the Gates Foundation, he led key projects to develop a crop-insurance solution for farmers in Uganda. In the education sector, he conducted outreach programs and raised capital to help start Ashoka University, a $140M initiative to bring liberal arts education to the center stage of South Asia’s higher education sector. Outside of work, Priyank is passionate about making chai, running, and exploring exosolar planets.