Natacha C. Marzolf

Natacha Marzolf

Natacha C. Marzolf is a Senior Principal Energy Specialist in the Energy Division of the Department of Infrastructure and Energy at the IDB in Washington, DC. She joined the IDB in 1996, selected by the Young Professionals Program and has more than 25 years of experience in the origination, structuring, and disbursement of financing for sovereign and non-sovereign projects in the energy and climate change sectors in Latin America and the Caribbean. Her publications include monographs on “Fiscal and Non-Fiscal Instruments in Chile” (2010); “Power and Possibility: the Energy Sector in Jamaica” (2011); “Geothermal Energy Entrepreneurship in Colombia” (2014) and “A unique approach to sustainable energy in Trinidad and Tobago” (2015). She is also one of the authors of the article “Analysis of incentives for renewable energy in the Latin American and Caribbean region: the case of regulated tariffs” (Energy Policy, Volume 60, September 2013). In 2019, she created the first academic partnership with Duke University and Sustainable Energy for All (SEforAll) and launched their joint publication on the “Energy Access Dividend in Honduras and Haiti.” Ms. Marzolf graduated from Harvard Law School and has a postgraduate degree in Development Law and Economics from the University of Paris V and a master’s degree in international and European Law from Paris II - Assas. She also completed executive education programs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and was the first woman nominated by the IDB to the Women's Global Leadership Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).