Dana Darwish
WiRE UAE, Dubai Chapter Leader
Dana is a Climate Change and Sustainability Consultant at EY Dubai. She is involved in various sustainability/ESG advisory services, including sustainability/ESG reporting and assurance, ESG/sustainability strategy development, energy management and ESG IPO Readiness Assessment. Dana has previously worked as a Research Assistant at the Environmental Law Faculty in University of Freiburg where she scrutinized and analyzed regional climate- and energy-related policies in EU, Americas and Asia. She has also interned at the UNEP ROWA mainly for the Resource Efficiency Sub-Programme. Furthermore, she has interned remotely at CEBC MENA in the Women in Clean Energy (WICE) working group and hosted CEBC MENA Podcast Channel. She is a Masters graduate in Renewable Energy Engineering and Management with Outstanding Distinction from University of Freiburg in Germany. Her interdisciplinary master thesis led to her being selected as one of the speakers at the first EPICamp Conference, organized by EPICUR. She has previously graduated with Highest Honors in Bachelors of Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering from University of Sharjah. Her Bachelors project received a Research Patent from UAE Ministry of Economy and allowed her to be nominated as a Young Biomass Researcher at Austria’s World Sustainable Energy Days 2020.
