Irene Maffini is a UKERC funded PhD student at Sussex University (SPRU) and a part-time consultant helping cleantech SMEs to commercialise their technologies. Irene works with government institutions to assess innovative projects, and supports development agencies setting up crowdfunding programmes.
Irene holds a first-class honours MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College (UK) and a double degree in Business & Economics from Northeastern University (US) and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy). Prior to her PhD, Irene spent seven years working across research, policy, finance and consulting in the field of clean technology commercialisation, incubation and investment, working on innovation programmes for the UK Government, the European Commission, the World Bank, the Swedish Energy Agency, Shell and GE. Irene’s clean technology thought leadership work has been covered in in the Economist, Daily Telegraph, Times, BBC and leading trade publications.