PA's Joellyn Murphy honoured with USAID's 'Outstanding Service Award'
PA's Joellyn Murphy was recently honoured with an 'Outstanding Service Award' by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the US Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan. This award – the highest that USAID can give to a non-employee – recognises individuals who have made a significant contribution to the agency's mission.
Joellyn leads the US government funded Kyrgyzstan Energy Advisory Services Project, where PA is advising the Prime Minister and Minister of Energy on critical national electricity issues.
Joellyn has been making a significant contribution to transforming people's lives since 1993, working primarily with governments and energy sectors in transitioning economies. In those early, difficult days from 1994-1999, she lived in Bishkek and worked for PA (then known as Hagler Bailly), where she led PA’s energy projects in Kyrgyzstan. In May 2008 she returned to Bishkek to lead PA’s current energy project – arriving just in time to advise on how to mitigate the effects of the country’s most severe winter energy supply shortage in decades.
Joellyn worked for almost a decade in the senior civil service in Washington DC, and for another decade in New Mexico as Vice President of an electric and gas utility. She has been working in energy policy and energy economics for more than 30 years, having started her federal career in the Executive Office of the President at the time of the United States’ own energy crisis, just after the first Arab oil embargo in 1973.
Joellyn is from California and a graduate of Stanford University with a BA in Communication and an MBA. She is also an emeritus member of the Board of Trustees of Stanford University.
