I am a Visiting Fellow in the Science Policy Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex.

After working at the University of Sussex from 2013 until 2023, I am now a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Geography at the Open University, UK.

My empirical and theoretical expertise is in development studies, political economy, economic geography and transitions to sustainability. My three main areas of research can be summarised as: i) ownership, finance and renewable energy; ii) governing electricity in a time of technological disruption; and iii) technological capabilities and global production networks in renewable energy.

My country specialism is on South Africa and I have worked in various countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America throughout my professional and academic career.

Prior to joining academia I worked with non-governmental organisations between 1998 and 2008: as policy and networking officer at the Bretton Woods Project, leading research and campaigns on the socio-economic and environmental impacts of development finance in low and middle-income countries; for Amnesty International as a human rights campaigner; and as a communications officer for Oxfam.

I completed my PhD in "The political economy of socio-technical transitions in South Africa's electricity sector" in 2012, at the University of East Anglia, UK. I hold an MSc in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies and an MA in Spanish and French from the University of Edinburgh.

A native speaker of English, I speak and write Spanish Portuguese and French to a high level.

I was previously associate editor of the geography journal Geoforum.