Megan Taylor is the Interagency Advisor at Power Africa, the U.S. Presidential Initiative that has supported $61 billion in power generation and brought first-time electricity to 145 million people across sub-Saharan Africa since 2013. Power Africa-supported projects are generating more than 6,000 MW of new, cleaner, and more reliable electricity, helping to mitigate climate change and energy poverty.
Mrs. Taylor leads Power Africa's Interagency Agency Team to develop a unified strategy and coordinated activities between Power Africa and its twelve U.S. government agency partners. Megan oversees the activities of several of these partner agencies who implement assistance on behalf of Power Africa, ensuring that each agency and department is effectively bringing to bear a wide range of tools and resources to support the power sector across sub-Saharan Africa. Since joining Power Africa in 2015, Mrs. Taylor has worked across the US government and its embassies in sub-Saharan Africa to engage with the private sector, host-governments, entrepreneurs, and other donors to scale-up investment in clean energy and innovative energy solutions. She assists private sector companies in accessing the resources and tools that will enable them to expand and invest in sub-Saharan Africa. Further, Megan has played a leading role in the initiative’s South Africa activities, focusing now on implementation of the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP).