Soraya leads strategic projects within the Africa portfolio, working closely with the VP of Africa to set priorities, identify metrics for success, coordinate and implement initiatives. She worked for a year with the Power and Climate team at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York, USA before transitioning to GEAPP.
Prior to GEAPP she worked for over 3 years as a mini-grid and C&I developer in Sub Saharan Africa building, designing, and financing off grid energy systems for system sizes upto 1 MW. She has also lived and worked in Haiti for 2 years with a social impact enterprise to finance commercial scale solar, making renewable energy affordable and accessible.
Her experience lies in project development, management and strategy and has a particular interest in the nexus between energy access and economic development.
Soraya has a Master’s in Environmental Management from Yale University, USA and a Masters in International Relations and Economics from the University of St. Andrews, UK.