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Robyn Meeks is an Assistant Professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.

Her research is at the intersection of environmental and development economics with much of her work focusing on understanding individual, household, and firm responses to the introduction of various water and energy technologies, policies, and types of infrastructure in developing countries.

She has implemented research in a number of countries, including India, Kyrgyzstan, Kenya, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru, and United States. Her prior and on-going energy-related research addresses topics such as the impacts of off-grid renewable energy versus grid electrification on enterprise development, barriers to adoption of solar energy in developing countries, and the demand for and impacts of energy efficient technologies on household electricity consumption and local electricity reliability.