Dr Iliana Cardenes

Dr Iliana Cardenes is the Director – Strategic Interventions & Partnerships at Great British Energy (GBE), where she leads strategic market intervention design for the UK’s offshore wind and clean energy supply chains. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute, specialising in energy-infrastructure resilience. Before joining GBE, she served as Associate Director for Climate Strategy & Delivery at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and previously led energy flexibility innovation and international climate science negotiations at the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. Her earlier career spans roles with the UN Development Programme in Mexico, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs in New York, and the European Commission, focusing on climate policy, environmental statistics, and clean energy. Iliana holds a DPhil (PhD) in Environmental Change from the University of Oxford, a