Tilana de Meillon

Tilana de Meillon is a Senior Operations Officer, Infrastructure at the IFC, based in Nairobi, Kenya, and leads all transmission and distribution initiatives for the IFC in Africa. Tilana is a professional Industrial Engineer and holds a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering (Electronic) as well as a Master’s degree in Engineering Management. With over 20 years of experience in the energy sector, she has a wealth of knowledge and experience in consulting engineering and project management and has demonstrated leadership and technical expertise. Tilana’s focus has been on project development of power infrastructure projects through her roles at Eskom, EON, Aurecon Consulting Engineers, Xaris Energy (a power developer) and USNC (focusing on a small modular nuclear reactor project). She has been actively involved in initiatives to unlock private sector participation in grid projects and regional interconnectors in a number of African countries.