Yerina Mugica is Associate Director at the Natural Resource Defense Council’s Center for Market Innovation, which works to identify and support implementation of profitable solutions to environmental challenges. Yerina focuses on strategies to shift capital towards energy efficiency solutions. Yerina has an M.B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a concentration in Sustainable Enterprise. Prior to joining NRDC, Yerina worked as a consultant to government and private sector clients and as Director of Product Development for an internet start up firm. She has also published case studies on renewable energy, conservation and microfinance programs in Latin America. Yerina is currently working on a range of initiatives to increase transparency and availability of energy efficiency performance data to address the needs of lenders, building owners and other relevant stakeholders.