Maya Brahmam is currently a Senior Strategy and Partnerships Officer with the Human Capital Project. She was a Senior Communications Officer for Global Themes, where she rolled out the Maximizing Finance for Development (MFD) initiative, working across the World Bank Group with communications and technical teams. She co-led a geospatial and temporal value chain analysis project and co-authored the report, Women’s Economic Empowerment through Resilient Agriculture Supply Chains: A Geospatial and Temporal Analysis in Southwestern Bangladesh, which was published in 2019. She is experienced in private sector engagement and formed a strategic collaborative with researchers at Harvard and the London School of Economics to build engagement with global CEOs and deepen the Bank’s understanding of this influential constituency. Maya has successfully led and delivered on several complex high-level initiatives involving multiple stakeholders inside and outside the Bank, such as the first TEDx for the World Bank in Sendai on the theme of natural disasters. She has worked for a range of clients within the World Bank, including the Bank’s Chief Economist and the high-level independent Commission on Growth and Development, chaired by Nobel Laureate, Michael Spence. A native English speaker, she is fluent in French and proficient in Spanish.