Jessica Merrill is an energy sector analyst with experience researching and evaluating a variety of topics including financial and operational performance of utilities, institutional frameworks of utility governance and regulation, and power supply and financing options. She has worked on projects with the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the U.S Agency for International Development (USAID) in Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, FYR Macedonia, Georgia, Kosovo, the Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Nauru, Serbia, Tanzania, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, conducting research and data analysis in various capacities.Jessica Merrill is an energy sector analyst with experience researching and evaluating a variety of topics including financial and operational performance of utilities, institutional frameworks of utility governance and regulation, and power supply and financing options. She has worked on projects with the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the U.S Agency for International Development (USAID) in Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, FYR Macedonia, Georgia, Kosovo, the Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Nauru, Serbia, Tanzania, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, conducting research and data analysis in various capacities.

Ms. Merrill holds a BA in Global Studies with Highest Honors and minors in Environmental Studies and Spanish from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ms. Merrill recently attended the Advanced Regulatory Studies Program at Michigan State University’s Institute of Public Utilities, which covered advanced technical, methodological, and policy issues of ratemaking, accounting, finance and economics in the utility sector.