Mariëlle Feenstra

Mariëlle Feenstra is co-founder and scientific director of 75inQ, the Institute on gender and energy promoting more visibility for diversity in the energy transition. After 15 years as a policy advisor for municipalities in the Netherlands, she returned to academia with her PhD project “Gender Just Energy Policy: engendering the energy transition in Europe” graduated in 2021 at University Twente, the Netherlands. She has been working on gender and energy since 2000. Her contribution as a gender-energy pioneer has been acknowledged both in academia and in practice by invitations to participate in policy formulation activities for the European Union and the United Nations.