Richenda Van Leeuwen

Richenda Van Leeuwen
Hummingbird Green Solutions

Richenda Van Leeuwen is President of Hummingbird Green Solutions, a clean energy and sustainability advisory consultancy. She has decades of executive experience in the global clean energy sector in commercial and impact investment, policy and global philanthropy, with organizations including RMI, the UN Foundation, the Aspen Institute, The Global LPG Partnership, the World Bank and Good Energies. Earlier in her career, she served for nearly five years as CEO of international women’s microenterprise non-profit, Trickle Up.

Richenda is on the board of New Energy Nexus and the Global LPG Partnership and served as a board director of off-grid solar pioneer SELCO India for 12 years. She earned both her MBA and BSc (Hons) degrees from Durham University, UK.

Articles by Richenda Van Leeuwen

Guest Articles

Monday
November 24
2025

Richenda Van Leeuwen / Richard Stuebi / Jesse Colman

Financing Off-Grid Solar: A Pioneering Provider in Honduras Shows the Impact of Diversified Funding

Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, and many of its most remote regions remain unserved by the electricity grid. Richenda Van Leeuwen at Hummingbird Green Solutions and Richard Stuebi and Jesse Colman at Boston University explore how Soluz Honduras is bringing freezers and other solar products to these markets by leveraging a variety of different financing models — an approach that shows how diversified funding can enable businesses to serve even the hardest-to-reach areas and the poorest of customers.

Categories
Energy, Finance, Investing

Tags
blended finance, energy access, microfinance, off-grid energy, PAYGO finance, Productive Use of Energy, renewable energy, results-based financing, solar
Guest Articles

Tuesday
April 6
2021

Christine Eibs Singer / Richenda Van Leeuwen

10 Key Lessons for Solar Enterprises: Insights From SELCO’s 26 Years Doing Business in India

SELCO, a pioneering off-grid solar company based in India, just celebrated its 26th anniversary. Christine Eibs Singer at Sustainable Energy for All and Richenda Van Leeuwen at ANDE, both former board members at SELCO, share 10 lessons from the company's decades of experience in the sector, which may be helpful to other impact investors and social entrepreneurs working in off-grid energy.

Categories
Energy, Investing, Social Enterprise

Tags
energy access, impact investing, off-grid energy, renewable energy, SDGs, solar

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