Inès van Oldeneel has a background in Political Sciences and International Development from the University of Bristol. She worked for a development consulting company and Stakeholder management company in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania before joining the Alliance for Rural Electrification in Brussels.

Inès van Oldeneel is Officer for the market and Business Development at the Alliance for Rural Electrification where she is involved in projects and publications related to decentralised renewable energy in Sub-Saharan Africa.
ARE is a business association that brings together more than 200 companies working across the decentralised renewable energy value chain mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa and enables the business environment for those companies.