Diala has been working in the Policy Unit of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) since 2012, on topics related to policy assessment including the study on Renewable Energy Auctions: Analysing 2016 and Renewable Energy Auctions: A Guide to Design, and to the socio-economic impacts of renewable energy, on projects including Renewable Energy Benefits: Leveraging Local Capacity of solar PV and onshore wind. Diala is one of the authors of IRENA’s regional market analysis on Southeast Asia. She has obtained her Master’s degree in Engineering Systems and Management from the Masdar Institute in Abu Dhabi, focusing on sustainability and renewable energy. Before that, she worked as a consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, offering advisory services to government entities in fields including energy and waste management.