Mariëlle Feenstra

Mariëlle Feenstra

PhD candidate
University Twente
Netherlands
Mariëlle Feenstra is a PhD researcher on engendering energy policy. She uses a gender lens to analyse energy poverty eradication policies and energy transition policy. She wrote the first-ever thesis on gender-aware energy policy with case studies from Uganda and South Africa as a University Twente master student in 2002. She worked 15 years as a policy advisor for municipalities in the Netherlands specialised in European Affairs. Together with her supervisor Prof. Dr. Joy Clancy, she has written two studies for the FEMM Committee of the European Parliament. Both studies are the first publications in the EU on gender and energy policy.
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