Kolbrún Ragna Ragnarsdóttir
Programme Officer – Geothermal IRENA
Bio
Kolbrún Ragna Ragnarsdóttir is currently with the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) as a Programme Officer – Geothermal. Previously she worked as Senior Project Manager in R&D at ON Power, one of the largest geothermal power companies in the world. She has been working in geothermal R&D for over a decade, received both international and national grants, and has contributed to numerous peer reviewed articles. Her expertise lies within mechanical engineering, geothermal energy, corrosion of metals in difficult environments and borehole technologies for deep geothermal wells (for example IDDP).
She has been an active member of the geothermal and energy community in Iceland. This includes co-founding a company in 2014 and receiving funding from Startup Energy Reykjavik, being a board member of the Renewable Energy Cluster and member of the board of Women in Energy group that supports equality in the energy sector in Iceland. Today, her focus is on working towards zero-emission and ensuring waste to value within geothermal electricity production.