Dr. Marsha Atherley-Ikechi

Organisation of Caribbean Utility Regulators (OOCUR)
Executive Director

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Dr. Marsha Atherley-Ikechi has spent more than two decades at the intersection of electricity regulation and energy transition in small island and developing economies. As Executive Director of the Organisation of Caribbean Utility Regulators (OOCUR) and Founder of Elequa Advisory, she works at the heart of the policy and regulatory architecture that will determine whether the Caribbean’s infrastructure ambitions translate into bankable, resilient outcomes.

Her track record is grounded in practice. As CEO and Director of Utility Regulation at the Fair Trading Commission of Barbados, she designed and implemented feed-in tariffs, power purchase agreements, storage tariffs, and the first resource-based renewable energy tariffs in the Caribbean, giving the region its earliest templates for private capital mobilisation in the energy sector.

She currently chairs the CARICOM Working Group on the Regional Utility Regulator Feasibility Study and serves on the ICER International Steering Committee. At CARIF 2026, she brings a practitioner’s lens to the central question facing Caribbean energy infrastructure: how regulatory design either opens or forecloses the path to climate-resilient, financeable energy systems.

Dr. Atherley-Ikechi holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and an M.Sc. in Renewable Energy Management (Distinction) from the University of the West Indies, and an M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering from Newcastle University, UK.