Elisa Derby (Moderator)

Elisa Derby is a household energy expert with 15 years of experience in the cookstoves sector. She manages Winrock’s clean cooking programs programs, with projects and partnerships that reduce fuel use and exposure to household air pollution — providing technical support, strategic planning, implementation and budget management. Ms. Derby currently manages U.S. EPA household energy capacity building activities, promoting effective approaches to increase the use of clean, reliable, affordable, efficient and safe home cooking and heating practices, and co-coordinated the predecessor Partnership for Clean Indoor Air. Ms. Derby holds a master’s from the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley.