Mariana Weiss

Mariana Weiss

Mariana is an economist with a D.Sc. and M.Sc. in Energy Planning at COPPE / UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). Currently, she is working as an energy Economics Research Consultant at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). Her research field covers topics such as energy consumption patterns, demand response, smart grids, energy efficiency, tariffs and other regulatory instruments applied to the electricity sector, renewable energy sources, distributed generation, energy transition pathways towards sustainable development. Her Ph.D. research focused on the analysis of Brazilian household energy consumption patterns and its representation in energy planning models. She also has experience in integrated energy planning studies using input-output matrices and bottom-up and top-down models. In the last three years, she helped lead one of the R&D Projects of the Brazilian Regulator ANEEL's Strategic Call "National Concentrated Solar Power Technology Development", and supported the World Bank's Capacity Building efforts related to the Global Electrification Platform (GEP) and the Geo-Enabling initiative for Monitoring and Supervision (GEMS).