Meron Tesfaye

Meron Tesfaye is the Innovation Director at the Energy for Growth Hub, where she leads work advancing energy abundance to support African mining and industrial growth. Before joining the Hub, she served as a Senior Policy Analyst at the Bipartisan Policy Center, focusing on emerging energy technologies and U.S. energy policy, including clean hydrogen, industrial decarbonization, biomass, clean fuels, carbon management, and environmental justice. Previously, Meron was a Senior Policy Fellow at Carbon180, where she applied her scientific training to advance early-stage carbon removal and climate mitigation technologies through federal policy. She also served as a Science Fellow with the California Council on Science and Technology, spending a year at the California Senate Budget Committee. Meron holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Engineering Leadership Development from the University of Maryland, College Park. She leverages her science and policy background to advance energy solutions that unlock economic growth in emerging and developing countries.