Natacha C. Marzolf has been appointed as the IDB Group Country Representative in Jamaica, effective October 1, 2024. Previously, she was a Principal Energy Specialist in the Energy Division of the Infrastructure and Energy Department in Washington DC. She joined the Bank in 1996, selected by the Young Professional Program and has over 25 years of experience originating, structuring and disbursing sovereign and non-sovereign project finance and corporate finance transactions, in particular in the energy sector in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Her publications include Power and Possibility: the Energy Sector in Jamaica” (2011),“A Unique Approach for Sustainable Energy in Trinidad and Tobago” (2015) (making the case that climate-friendly and low-carbon green technologies are a viable and sustainable path for fossil-based economies), “Instrumentos Fiscales y No Fiscales a las Energias Renovables en Chile” (2010) and “Emprendimiento de la Energia Geotérmica en Colombia” (2014). She is also one of the authors of the article ”Analysis of renewable energy incentives in the Latin America and Caribbean region: The feed-in tariff case” (Energy Policy, Volume 60, September 2013). In 2019, she led the first IDB academic partnership with Duke University and Sustainable Energy For All (SEforAll) and released their joint publication on the “Energy Access Dividend in Honduras and Haiti”.

Ms. Marzolf is a graduate of Harvard Law School and holds a post-graduate degree in Development and Economics Law from the University of Paris V and a Master in International and European Law from Paris II – Assas. She also completed executive education programs at Harvard Kennedy School of Government and was the first woman nominated by IDB for the Women’s Global Leadership Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).