Brenda Martin
Brenda’s story
Brenda Martin has worked within South Africa’s energy transition since 2007. Given her diverse sectoral experience, she has a rich understanding of contemporary national, issues of Development, Politics, Energy and Climate Policy, and how these also relate to regional and international socio-political, economic and environmental movements.
Her vision for Just Transition in South Africa includes the achievement of Economic inclusion, Gender equality, Affordable access to energy, Women & Youth Development and Employment & Entrepreneurship growth.
She sustains and expands her understanding of the Just transition context by mainly researching and then annually mapping the national and international public sector stakeholders and the work they do in achieving South Africa’s energy transition. This work is complemented by sustained attention to other elements of transition including water, food, transport and work.
Brenda studied business at undergraduate level and later completed post-graduate studies in Climate change and Executive leadership. She has an MPhil in Energy & Development (Mechanical Engineering, UCT, 2016). Her dissertation analysed the Politics of Electricity Planning.
Brenda Martin
Brenda’s story
Brenda Martin has worked within South Africa’s energy transition since 2007. Given her diverse sectoral experience, she has a rich understanding of contemporary national, issues of Development, Politics, Energy and Climate Policy, and how these also relate to regional and international socio-political, economic and environmental movements.
Her vision for Just Transition in South Africa includes the achievement of Economic inclusion, Gender equality, Affordable access to energy, Women & Youth Development and Employment & Entrepreneurship growth.
She sustains and expands her understanding of the Just transition context by mainly researching and then annually mapping the national and international public sector stakeholders and the work they do in achieving South Africa’s energy transition. This work is complemented by sustained attention to other elements of transition including water, food, transport and work.
Brenda studied business at undergraduate level and later completed post-graduate studies in Climate change and Executive leadership. She has an MPhil in Energy & Development (Mechanical Engineering, UCT, 2016). Her dissertation analysed the Politics of Electricity Planning.
Approach and values
South Africa has many stubborn historical injustices to overcome. The need to take national action which is sufficiently urgent in response to the global Climate crisis, is not straightforward. My work toward the achievement of Just transition therefore recognises the core challenge of our context: to urgently address economic inclusion and historic injustice, while also ensuring that unavoidable Climate-related socio-economic impact is attended to.
