Maya Gandhi joins the Center's Strategic Engagement team as Senior Analyst, Operations and Stakeholder Engagement. In this role, Maya will support the team’s activities to ensure operational effectiveness and strategic execution. Maya has a breadth of experience across the social impact landscape.

Most recently, she served as an Account Manager for the Social Finance Fund at Common Approach to Impact Measurement, where she supported funders and their investees to reduce the burden of their impact measurement and management (IMM) practices. Her work operationalized the IMM approach of the Government of Canada’s $750 million Social Finance Fund, strengthening IMM practices across Canada’s social finance sector. Prior to that, Maya was a Strategy Coordinator at the Equality Fund, where she supported a $300 million business transformation file and supported engagement with global philanthropic and public-sector partners.

Maya holds a Master of Global Affairs with a specialization in innovation and the environment from the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and an Honours Business Administration with a specialization in sustainability from the Ivey Business School. She currently lives in Toronto, Canada. Outside of work, she enjoys playing recreational sports, reading historical fiction, and baking treats for her family and friends.