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Dr. Rebekah Shirley is the Chief Research Officer at Power for All, where she works toward better access to high-quality energy data and insights for the sector. She leads the PEAK team on research and technology development, and is currently hosted as a Visiting Research Fellow at Strathmore University, in Nairobi, Kenya, where she lives.

Rebekah earned her PhD from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley, where she also obtained her MSc. Energy and Resources and a MSc. Civil Engineering. Her research explores models for integrated energy planning and opportunities for catalyzing decentralized energy markets in sub-Saharan Africa. Rebekah is a University of California Chancellor’s Fellow and an awardee of grants from institutions such as the Department of Energy, the Mott Foundation and the Rainforest Foundation.