Elisa Derby
Senior Director of Research, Evidence and Learning, Clean Cooking Alliance
Elisa Derby is the Senior Director of Research, Evidence and Learning for the Clean Cooking Alliance. She leads CCA’s work building capacity and facilitating collaboration between diverse technical experts and policymakers to translate local needs and scientific expertise into publicly accessible information and action, including leading CCA’s Standards and Testing portfolio. Elisa has 20 years of clean cooking sector expertise as an experienced project and program manager and technical facilitator. Prior to joining CCA she led Winrock International’s 15-year household energy and clean cooking portfolio, including co-coordinating CCA’s precursor Partnership for Clean Indoor Air from 2003 through the establishment of CCA. She has been an active technical expert member of ISO Technical Committee 285 (Clean Cookstoves and Clean Cooking Solutions) since its inception, and has led or supported multiple research projects investigating consumer adoption of cooking technologies and practices and resulting impacts. She holds a Master’s degree from UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources group.
Day 0
October 10
Sessions by Elisa Derby
Day 1
October 11
Sessions by Elisa Derby
Day 2
October 12
Sessions by Elisa Derby
9:00 am-10:30 am
Breakout Room A
Perspectives on Innovation: Measuring & Monetizing Impacts
Game-changing innovations can dramatically contribute to scaling the sector and bring us closer to universal access to clean cooking solutions. These talks will feature innovators who will discuss how their products, services, or approaches have the potential to address key challenges in the sector.
- Advancing innovative direct impact monitoring: Fuel Use Electronic Logger (FUEL): Nordica MacCarty, Associate Professor of Engineering, Oregon State University
- Clean cooking saves lives: the Air Burden of Disease Explorer can predict how many: Michael Johnson, Technical Director, Berkeley Air Monitoring Group
- Advancing digital MRV to scale nature-linked clean cooking: Claire Willers, Senior Manager, Market Relations, The Gold Standard Foundation
- Unlocking climate finance for clean cooking in displacement settings: Muna Eltahir, Director of Practical Action Sudan
- Applying research to create a new results-based finance tool for women’s empowerment: Subhrendu Pattanayak, Oak Professor of Environmental and Energy Policy, Duke University
Speakers
Elisa Derby
Senior Director of Research, Evidence and Learning, Clean Cooking Alliance
Daniel Kammen
Senior Advisor for Energy Innovation, US Agency for International Development
Nordica MacCarty
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State University
Michael Johnson
Technical Director, Berkeley Air Monitoring Group
Claire Willers
Senior Manager, Market Relations, The Gold Standard Foundation
Muna Eltahir
Country Director, Practical Action Sudan
Subhrendu Pattanayak
Oak Professor of Environmental and Energy Policy, Duke University
Day 3
October 13
Sessions by Elisa Derby
Day 4
October 14
Sessions by Elisa Derby
Sessions by Elisa Derby
Sessions by Elisa Derby
Sessions by Elisa Derby
9:00 am-10:30 am
Breakout Room A
Perspectives on Innovation: Measuring & Monetizing Impacts
Game-changing innovations can dramatically contribute to scaling the sector and bring us closer to universal access to clean cooking solutions. These talks will feature innovators who will discuss how their products, services, or approaches have the potential to address key challenges in the sector.
- Advancing innovative direct impact monitoring: Fuel Use Electronic Logger (FUEL): Nordica MacCarty, Associate Professor of Engineering, Oregon State University
- Clean cooking saves lives: the Air Burden of Disease Explorer can predict how many: Michael Johnson, Technical Director, Berkeley Air Monitoring Group
- Advancing digital MRV to scale nature-linked clean cooking: Claire Willers, Senior Manager, Market Relations, The Gold Standard Foundation
- Unlocking climate finance for clean cooking in displacement settings: Muna Eltahir, Director of Practical Action Sudan
- Applying research to create a new results-based finance tool for women’s empowerment: Subhrendu Pattanayak, Oak Professor of Environmental and Energy Policy, Duke University
Speakers
Elisa Derby
Senior Director of Research, Evidence and Learning, Clean Cooking Alliance
Daniel Kammen
Senior Advisor for Energy Innovation, US Agency for International Development
Nordica MacCarty
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State University
Michael Johnson
Technical Director, Berkeley Air Monitoring Group
Claire Willers
Senior Manager, Market Relations, The Gold Standard Foundation
Muna Eltahir
Country Director, Practical Action Sudan
Subhrendu Pattanayak
Oak Professor of Environmental and Energy Policy, Duke University