Margherita Calderone is a Principal Economist in the EBRD’s Gender and Economic Inclusion team. She leads its work on the power and energy and natural resources sectors, including under EBRD’s Just Transition Initiative, focusing on projects that create equitable access to skills and employment for women, youth, older workers and populations in remote regions. She has 12 years of work experience in the design, implementation and evaluation of multi-partner inclusion, gender and development programmes across a range of emerging economies. She was previously a Research Fellow in the Risk and Resilience Programme at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) in London, where she led the team’s strategy on the Economics and Finance for Resilience. She holds a PhD in Development Economics from Humboldt University in Berlin and an MSc degree in Economics from Bocconi University in Milan.