Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen

Dr Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen, who joined SEI in 2025, conducts research on humanitarian energy and climate issues. Sarah’s work has focused on UN institutional policies and private-sector practices on sustainable energy within humanitarian systems and refugee camps. Her research has appeared in peer-reviewed scholarly journals such as the Journal of Refugee Studies, Energy Research and Social Science, the Journal of Humanitarian Action, Nature Energy, and Climate Policy. 

Her book, “Voices in the Dark: The Energy Lives of Refugees” was recently published by Berghahn Books.

Sarah is the co-founder of the Global Platform for Action for Sustainable Energy in Displacement Situations (the GPA) and a research associate at the University of Oxford, where she is a member of the Refugee Studies Centre and Linacre College.

She holds a BSc in Geography from the University of Edinburgh, an MSc in Energy Regulation from the London School of Economics, and a DPhil in International Development from the University of Oxford. 

She has held academic positions at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Imperial College London, and the University of Cambridge. 

As a practitioner, Sarah was previously Head of Humanitarian Energy at the international NGO Practical Action, and a senior adviser on energy for the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), now the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).