Natacha C. Marzolf is a Principal Energy Specialist in the Energy Division of the Infrastructure and Environment Department and is based in Washington DC. She joined the Bank in 1996, selected by the Young Professional Program and has over 20 years of experience originating, structuring and disbursing sovereign and non-sovereign transactions, in particular in the energy sector in Latin American and the Caribbean, including public private partnerships (PPPs). She has received several awards and obtained the 2005 Deal of the Year “Campos Novos” in Brazil. Her most recent publications in the energy field include her Department’s first monograph on “Power and Possibility: the Energy Sector in Jamaica” (2011); a policy paper on “Fiscal and Non-Fiscal Incentives to promote Renewable Energy in Chile” (2012); a technical paper on “Harnessing Geothermal Energy in Colombia” (2013) and her most recently-released second monograph “A Unique Approach for Sustainable Energy in Trinidad and Tobago” (2015) making the case that climate-friendly and low-carbon green technologies are a viable and sustainable path for fossil-based economies such as Trinidad and Tobago. She is also one of the authors of the article ”Analysis of renewable energy incentives in the Latin America and Caribbean region: The feed-in tariff case” (Energy Policy, Volume 60, September 2013). In the last four years, Ms. Marzolf focused her work on Haiti, assembling key financing for several large infrastructure projects and crafting policies and recommendations to improve the energy sector and the Haitian state utility. Ms. Marzolf is a graduate of Harvard Law School and holds a post-graduate degree in Development and Economics Law from the University of Paris V and a Master in International and European Law from Paris II – Assas.