Pamela Baldinger is Women’s Employment Expert Consultant for the World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP).

An international development and business specialist with over 15 years’ experience in the design and management of energy projects, she currently focuses on the nexus between gender and energy, working with the World Bank’s Africa Gender and Energy Program and the Millennium Challenge Corporation in Kosovo to increase women’s participation in the energy sector workforce.

As Senior Energy Adviser at USAID, she managed numerous energy access, renewable energy, and gender projects. She authored the Energy Division’s Gender Strategy and managed the Empowered Entrepreneur Training Program and the agency’s premier gender and infrastructure project, Engendering Utilities.