Nthabiseng Mohlakoana holds a Doctorate in Innovation and Governance for Sustainable Developmentfrom the University of Twente’s Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability (CSTM) in The Netherlands. She has more than 15 years of experience in research focusing on energy access and use, gender and development in the low-income urban and rural areas, mainly in Southern Africa. Most of her research in recent years emphasizes the importance of gender equality in planning and implementation of energy and other basic services interventions dictated by policies. Her work aims at finding solutions that address and lead to the eradication of energy poverty experienced by women and men in low-income urban and rural areas in the global south.

For four years since 2015 she was working as a key Researcher and Project Coordinator on DFID funded four-year multiple-partner project titled: ‘Productive Uses of Energy and Gender in the Informal Food Sector’ with a focus on three African countries namely Rwanda, Senegal and South Africa.

In the past few years her professional activities have included research in energy and gender topics, guest lecturing in development studies as well as supervision and co-supervision of graduate, masters and doctoral student’s projects. She also has experience in various methods of applying gender a lens and using different gender approaches in the energy sector in households as well as gender mainstreaming of energy and climate change projects and programs.