Dana Rysankova

World Bank
Global Lead for Energy Access


Dana Rysankova is the Global Lead for Energy Access, providing strategic and operational guidance to the World Bank’s Energy and Extractives Global Practice to scale-up its energy access interventions. In addition to this role, Dana is coordinating energy access activities at the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), where among other things she is the Program Manager for Lighting Global. Dana has been at the World Bank for nearly two decades, spearheading multiple projects in Africa and Latin America and Caribbean regions, focusing on energy access and distributed renewables.