Joan is a Renewable Energy Finance Professional. She currently holds the position of Project Director, for the Power Africa’s Health Electrification and Telecommunication Alliance (HETA) working with Abt Global. HETA is a Global Development Alliance initiated by the US Government to increase health facility electrification (HFE) and digital connectivity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Joan is responsible for implementing the strategic, long-term programmatic vision for the Alliance and providing overall technical leadership and management for sustainable country implementation across sub-Saharan Africa.

She has over a decade of  experience in both grid and off-grid renewable energy. Previously, she was the Director, Energy Access Financial Advisory at the Africa Minigrid Developers Association (AMDA), where she led AMDA’s financial advocacy work on tariffs, rollout of smart subsidies and guarantee products that will crowd in large-scale funding to the minigrid sector in Africa. She worked as Chief Financial Analyst at KenGen and has experience in tariff setting and power purchase agreement negotiations of large-scale, grid-connected power.

She is a top 40 Under 40 Kenyan Women 2021, Africa Power and Energy Elite in the 2021, Fellow of the Future Energy Leader at the World Energy Council in 2020, a Young African Leader Initiative (YALI) Power Africa, Women in Africa Power 2019 fellow and a mentor for the Global Women’s network for the Energy Transition (GWNET) and a board member of the Energy Society of Kenya, the World Energy Council Kenya Chapter.

She has a Master of Science in Finance from the University of Nairobi and  Masters in Energy policy at the University of Sussex.