Andrea Cabanero holds a Master of Science in Business Engineering specialized in Energy (2019) from Technische Universität Berlin and a Bachelor in Economics (2015) from Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Her research focus is centered on mini-grids as tools for energy and water access as well as rural development and community empowerment. She has four years of working experience in the energy field, two of which have been focused on the rural electrification and mini-grid sectors in Africa (with focus in Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Egypt). Andrea Cabanero has worked as Head of Operations of the mini-grid Tanzanian company JUMEME Rural Power Supply, where she was responsible for the development and implementation of the operations scheme of the company, with a portfolio of 12 mini-grids across islands in Lake Victoria. As mini-grid expert in INENSUS, she has contributed with technical, economic and policy expertise to assignments in Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Ethiopia. Currently based in Berlin, Ms. Cabanero has professional command of Spanish, Catalan, English and German and has lived in Tanzania, Egypt and China.