Marie-Anne Serve is an energy and environmental engineer, graduate of the National Institute of Applied Science (INSA) of Lyon, France. For the past 16 years she has been working on international projects related to sustainable development, green cities, renewable energies and energy efficiency. Starting her career in the private sector, she then served for the French Government in France, India, Kazakhstan and Togo, as well as for the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in Bonn, Germany. Since 2021, she is employed at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH where she has been working as manager of energy and climate finance projects in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. She is currently engaged in the Partnership for Energy Efficiency in Buildings (PEEB), a multi-partner initiative aiming to transform the global buildings sector by promoting sustainable building design, construction, and operation