Doris Hernandez has experience researching a range of issues including the potential of renewable energy, energy demand, district heating, water tariffs, and energy subsidies. She is currently working on a project with the Asian Development Bank on a capacity development technical assistance for institutional strengthening of Nauru’s Utilities Corporation.
Prior to joining DHInfrastructure, Doris was a political section intern for the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City. In this position she developed weekly news reports, researched and wrote reports on the unaccompanied child migrants transiting through Mexico and ending at the United States’ Southern Border, and attended meetings and conferences with local and federal level political leaders.  She also spent a summer interning at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev where she led a research report on children with disabilities in Ukraine. During her senior year of college, Doris was a research assistant for the Department of Economics at the University of South Carolina. Under this role, Doris worked on a project commissioned by the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation where she researched rules and regulations affecting advertising in Mexico, Chile and Peru, and surveyed key informants for APEC’s study. 
During her undergraduate studies, Doris enrolled in courses such as International Development, International Political Economy, and Econometrics. She graduated with a BA in Economics and International Studies from the University of South Carolina-Columbia. Doris spent a semester studying abroad in Argentina in 2012, and also spent a semester in France in 2013. 
