Marielle Feenstra

Biography

Mariëlle Feenstra is a postdoctoral researcher at Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Technology, Management and Policy. She holds a PhD of the University Twente, the Netherlands. She wrote the first-ever thesis on gender-aware energy policy with case studies from Uganda and South Africa as a University Twente master student in 2002. For ENERGIA, she compiled the first-ever annotated bibliography on gender and energy in 2001. She worked 15 years as a policy advisor for municipalities in the Netherlands specialised in European Affairs. In her PhD research she continues her academic work on gender-aware energy policy, focusing on policy design and formulation in the policy process cycle. She uses a gender lens to analyse energy poverty mitigation policies and energy transition policy, taking a North-South perspective. Together with her supervisor Prof. Dr. Joy Clancy, she has written two studies for the FEMM Committee of the European Parliament. Both studies are the first publications in the EU on gender and energy policy.