Maya Brahmam

Maya handles communications for the newly created Global Themes Vice Presidency, which comprises different Groups, such as Fragility, Conflict and Violence, Gender, Infrastructure/PPPs/Guarantees, Knowledge Management, and Climate Change.Previously, she led the work on private sector engagement in the Global Engagement team in External and Corporate Relations. Before that, Maya led communications for the World Bank’s Knowledge Exchange and Learning department, where she successfully launched the World Bank’s first Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on climate change, citizen engagement, and risk. She has developed and led innovative campaigns for the Bank; examples include the Nike-World Bank "Party in the Park" for gender equality and Arab Voices and Views, a high-level forum on the Middle East and North Africa. She organized and curated TEDx Sendai on the theme of natural disasters and TEDx WBG on the theme of Ending Poverty. In October 2015, she organized the first WikiStage WBG Lima on Social Inclusion.
Her areas of interest include growth and development, gender, climate change, youth, and knowledge for development. A native English speaker, she is fluent in French and is proficient in Spanish.
- A mountain for leadership
- Using Geospatial and Temporal Value Chain Analysis in a Project
- The Lure of Data
- #8 from 2016: Globalization of Food Has a Long History
- Blog post of the month: A sidekick for development
- A Sidekick for Development
- Lessons from our Fathers
- Globalization of Food Has a Long History
- No Money, No Worry
- Things I Learned from WikiStage WBG Lima
- World Cup and making history for women
- New thinking on digital storytelling
- Aid Is Politics: We Need to Act
- TEDxWBG : Poner fin a la pobreza
- TEDxWBG : Mettre fin à la pauvreté
- TEDxWBG: Ending Poverty
- Mandela on My Mind
- The Importance of Learning and Climate Change
- The Digital Media Academy at the 7th World Urban Forum
- Women Visible
- Storytellers Redux: A Development Slam
- All About A MOOC (Not A Moose)
- The Power of Storytelling
- The Dog Days of Summer
- The Wellspring of Ideas: Tacit Knowledge