Introduction
Paola Velasco-Herrejon is a PhD candidate at the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on factors affecting renewable energy projects acceptance in the Global South.
She started her career as a fundraising officer at Fair Trade Mexico to then support indigenous women’s led businesses at the Mexico Women’s ministry. Paola then worked as Community Development Coordinator at Grupo Mexico, to launch a CSR strategy for their wind energy development in Oaxaca. In her most recent role, she worked for the United Nations Development Programme evaluating public programmes carried out by Mexico’s Commission for the Development of Indigenous People.
She is currently Teaching Assistant of the paper Business, Government and Technology in Emerging Markets provided for students from the MPhils in Technology and Policy, and Engineering for Sustainable Development at the Cambridge Judge Business School. She also supervises undergraduate students taking the Sociology Part 3 module Control and Resistance in Digital Societies, and is a tutor of sustainability and economics subjects in summer academic programs held at the University of Cambridge.
Paola earned her Gender and Development MA as a CONACYT scholar at the Institute of Development Studies based at the University of Sussex.