Richenda Van Leeuwen

Richenda is Managing Director for Emerging Clean Economies at the Rocky Mountain Institute, leading RMI’s emerging markets energy teams. As Chair, International Institutions at the Global LPG Partnership she worked on African residential energy solutions from 2016-2019 and as a member of the World Bank's Energy Program's (ESMAP) Technical Advisory Group. From 2010-2016 she was Executive Director for Energy Access at the United Nations Foundation.

Richenda has over 25 years of executive management experience including in emerging markets private equity and impact investment. She is a board director of SELCO India and previously served as a founding US “Women’s Clean Energy Ambassador.”