Titles

• Project Manager, ASU Center for Excellence in Energy

Biography

Alana Burnham is a project management professional with 6 years of experience working in global development. She was a key member of Global Locust Initiative’s USAID-funded project Communities for Sustainable Agriculture (Bay Sa Waar), leading the creation of outreach materials for project beneficiaries in Senegal and larger Western Africa.

Alana currently is the Project Manager of the ASU's Center of Excellence for Energy, a USAID project in Egypt seeking to strengthen the capacity of Egyptian Universities to drive public and private energy sector innovation, bolster Egyptian government policy to stimulate economic growth, and find solutions to Egypt's unique challenges in the energy sector.

Education

• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)®, Project Management Institute, 2021
• BS, Environmental and Soil Sciences (Environmental Science; minor in Biological Sciences and Stormwater, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 2015