Energy systems. Health facilities. Applied research.
I help partners install, monitor, and finance reliable power for health facilities in Central Africa, translating engineering data, public health outcomes, and local implementation realities into decisions that last.
About
I grew up across Mauritius, Vanuatu, Martinique, Massachusetts, and other places shaped by migration, colonial history, language, and infrastructure. That early mobility became a professional throughline: learning how power, connectivity, institutions, and trust shape what people can do.
My formal training began in ethics, politics, and economics at Yale and international energy at Sciences Po, then widened through a decade of development advisory, teaching, climate technology, and African energy work. Later, at UC Berkeley, I added electrical engineering and data science to the toolkit.
Today my work sits between field implementation and academic evidence. I design and manage programs that make infrastructure performance visible, especially where reliability can affect clinical care, health-system trust, and avoidable mortality.
Current Focus
In North Kivu, my partners and I moved from sensor-based evidence generation to a hospital solarization, maintenance, repayment monitoring, and live operational learning effort. The work integrates telemetry, DHIS2, repayment, implementation, geospatial, and facility operations data.
DRC Health Facility Electrification Program, Johns Hopkins / UC Berkeley
Lead multi-institutional research and implementation across electricity reliability, global health, emissions, climate finance, sensor telemetry, DHIS2 data, repayment tracking, and facility operations.
Energy, climate, geospatial, and development strategy
Advise organizations working across energy access, digital finance, emerging-market innovation, oxygen access, climate data, and infrastructure strategy.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Reviewed minigrid techno-economics and regulatory trends across selected US and African states.
African Leadership University, Mauritius
Directed project-based strategy engagements for 60 first-year students from across Africa and launched an English immersion program.
Dalberg Advisors, Dakar
Supported foundations, DFIs, and private-sector clients on energy access, agriculture, infrastructure, resilience, and investment strategy across African markets.
PhD, Energy & Resources Group, UC Berkeley. MA, International Energy, Sciences Po Paris. BA, Ethics, Politics & Economics, Yale University.
Mentoring, advising, and co-learning
I run the Health Energy Action Lab, focused on electrification in the African Great Lakes region. Past and present collaborators in the lab contribute to analysis, implementation, writing, and co-publication, including undergraduates, master's students, and PhD students who go on to prominent roles in academia, research, policy, activism, and engineering.
Writing and Works
Google Scholar
Manuscript under review
Power Africa
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The Lancet Global Health
Applied Energy
Environmental Research Letters
IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference
Applied Geography
GSMA
University of California, Berkeley
Development Engineering
Digital Tool
Results-based finance and energy-as-a-service dashboard integrating telemetry, DHIS2, repayment, and implementation data, commissioned by UNOPS through the Powering Healthcare Innovation Grant.
Visit the results-based finance power monitoring dashboard
Featured Deck
Current briefing from the Ebola working folder, dated August 18, 2026, tracking the 17th Ebola outbreak, response requirements, and health-facility power priorities.
Photos
Photo credits: Jess Kersey, Samuel Miles, Research Center for Humanitarian Aid
Partnerships
I coordinate partnerships between technology providers, government agencies, think tanks, civil society, and the private sector. Key partnerships I have built and developed include nLine, A2EI, OffGridBox, and UNOPS / Sustainable Energy for All.
Contact
Useful conversations often begin with a concrete implementation question: where power is failing, what data can prove, and which institutions need to act on it.
