Joy Clancy is Professor Emeritus of Energy and Gender, the Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability (CSTM), University of Twente, The Netherlands. She has a PhD in Engineering (alternative fuels for small stationary engines). Joy’s research has focused, for more than 30 years, on the social dimension of energy systems in which gender has been an important factor addressed, initially in the Global South, and more recently in the Global North. She can be credited with establishing gender and energy as a research field. Joy is a founder member of ENERGIA, the international network on Gender and Sustainable Energy.