Maitreyi Bordia Das

Maitreyi Bordia Das is Senior Social Protection Specialist in the South Asia Human Development Department, based in Washington DC. She works on overarching human development issues, but more specifically on employment, safety nets and related policy and institutional reform primarily in India, Bangladesh and Nepal. Maitreyi has a PhD in Sociology (Demography) from the University of Maryland.

Before joining the World Bank she was in the Maharashtra cadre of the Indian Administrative Service, having joined the IAS in 1986. She started her career as a lecturer in St Stephen's College, University of Delhi and has been a MacArthur Fellow at the Harvard Center of Population and Development Studies. She has also worked in the Caribbean as advisor to the UNDP.