Ronke Luke has experience advising senior executives (including at the ministerial level) on initiatives to develop and increase uptake of advanced energy and environmental technologies and practices in power and oil and gas sectors in U.S. and international markets. She has worked on projects taking technologies from R&D-to-market in the chemical, oil and gas and power sectors. Ronke has lived, worked and studied in the U.S., Europe and Africa. She holds a masters degree in chemical engineering and is currently completing the Global Energy MBA at Warwick University (U.K.). She is originally from Sierra Leone and has a keen interest in energy development in Africa, particularly how the political economy affects sustainability, investment and operations in the energy sector. Ronke is a manager at Z, Inc., a Washington DC based energy contractor, where she overseas petroleum marketing survey operations for the Energy Information Administration. She is the immediate past president of the Women’s Council on Energy and the Environment (www.wcee.org)
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