Marjorie is a Senior Program Director at the United States Energy Association. Leading the Energy Partnership Program which later became the Energy Utility Partnership Program (EUPP) she has been managing and implementing partnership activities in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Marjorie has over 30 years of experience working on government programs dealing with emerging challenges in the energy sector in developing countries and currently manages the Energy Utility Partnership Program (EUPP) and the Advancing Modern Power through Utility Partnership (AmpUp) Program. Both of these USAID-funded programs support the institutional capacity building of the participating overseas utilities to increase energy security and access.  She has worked with overseas utilities and government entities to develop and implement capacity-building programs focused on a wide range of energy topics including:

• Energy markets
• Grid operations
• Distribution operations to include customer service, billing, and collections
• Regulation
• Tariffs
• Power Purchase Agreements
• Competitive procurements
• Gender

After serving for four years in the U.S. Army, Marjorie worked at several consulting firms managing government contracts dealing with the development of global energy projects. She attended Long Island University where she received a BS in Business Management.