Energy for Growth Hub
Energy Policy, Power & Development Finance
Katie is the Deputy Executive Director at the Energy for Growth Hub. She helps lead strategy and operations, and focuses her research and analysis on U.S. energy, development finance, and climate policy. She hosts the Hub’s podcast High Energy Planet and writes about global development and America’s changing role in the world in her Aid Interrupted Substack. She is also a non-resident fellow on US-Africa relations at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a member of the Economic Advisory Council for the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation. Previously, she spent seven years at the U.S. Agency for International Development, including as Senior Development Finance Advisor and Acting Deputy Coordinator of Power Africa. Katie holds an MsC in Natural Resource Management from the University of Akureyri in Iceland and a BA from Bowdoin College. In her free time, she’s chasing her two boys around and finding ways to get up into the mountains or out in the ocean.
Memo The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act, now headed to President Biden’s desk for signature, is predominantly a domestic bill…
The fight over when – or even whether – to use development finance for gas-fired power plants in…
Achieving ‘net zero’ carbon emissions is essential for climate progress. But most global projections of how to get…
Summary To achieve an equitable global net zero future, lower-income and under-electrified countries must play a much bigger…
Executive Summary Shocks from the pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine are disproportionately affecting emerging and frontier…
