Team

Dr. Miriam Schröder

Miriam co-founded SiNERGi, and is a managing director. With 20 years’ experience, she has developed a solid track record in advising clients on energy and climate issues. At this nexus, she works on market mechanisms and results-based financing, renewable energy deployment policies and financing models, and off-grid energy access. Her consultancy work is well grounded in hands-on implementation experience gained from 2 years of co-managing the Energising Development Project for the promotion of mini-grids and solar home systems in Rwanda.

Miriam complements her technical expertise on renewable energies with a sound toolbox of social science evaluation design and data analysis methodologies. She wrote her PhD thesis on "Evaluating the effectiveness of provincial CDM centres in China – lessons learned for capacity development", holds a master’s degree in political science, and graduated from the Centre for Rural Development (SLE).

Miriam is passionate about life-long learning, and embraces the challenge of acquainting herself with new topics in a short period of time. She enjoys training and moderating, and has lectured at several universities, such as the New York University in Berlin. In addition to publishing extensively in her own right (view publications), Miriam serves as a reviewer for a number of journals, including Applied Energy, Climate Policy, and Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering in China.

Miriam speaks English, French, Chinese and German.

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Dr.-Ing. Mirco Gaul

Mirco is a co-founder and director of SiNERGi. He has a background in energy and process engineering, specialising in renewable energies. Since 2005, he has worked as an advisor on international development projects. At the intersection of energy and development, he provides guidance on implementing energy programmes, designing conducive regulatory and policy frameworks, developing business models and executing energy investment projects.

Mirco enjoys working in a variety of roles, whether as a manager, team leader, consultant or colleague. He enjoys working with people as well as performing technical or economic assessments involving number-crunching. He has been following the technical and political debate on the evolution of renewable energies for the last two decades and has acquired extensive technical and economic expertise. He has strong analytical skills and is adept at technical analysis, economic assessment, market and policy studies, strategy development, monitoring and impact evaluation.

Mirco completed his PhD on comparative energy and cost analysis of energy services at the TU-Berlin, where he also received his master (Dipl.-Ing.) in energy and industrial engineering. He has completed a post-graduate programme on international development at the Centre for Rural Development (SLE, HU-Berlin). Mirco is a reviewer for journals such as Regional Environmental Change, Energy for Sustainable Development and the Journal for Sustainable Development. He publishes in his field of expertise (view publications by Mirco).

Mirco works in German and English and understands Spanish.

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