Yasmeen Allen Martei is the Director of Planning and Operations at the Center for Inclusive Growth and Sustainability (CFIG&S). Yasmeen manages the team’s budget, produces quarterly team reports, and ensures uniformity and standards across CFIG&S. She also works on the team’s strategic planning processes and produces the quarterly Mastercard Impact Fund board meeting.

Yasmeen has over a decade of experience working with philanthropies as a nonprofit fundraiser and foundation administrator. She joins us from the President’s Office of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, where she led the strategic planning process for the Presidential Initiatives, co-led the planning and execution of the Board of Trustees’ annual learning trips, managed the Presidential and cross-programmatic budgets, and managed the foundation’s art acquisition processes. Prior to Mellon, she worked at the Ford Foundation, where she managed team grantmaking budgets, assessed their strategic alignment, and engaged in the strategic planning processes for multi-million-dollar initiatives.

Yasmeen earned a B.A. in Political Science from Tufts University and a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School, where she received the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro University Public Service Award and the J.W. Saxe Memorial Prize. She is licensed to practice law in New York and New Jersey. Yasmeen is from New York and resides in New Jersey with her husband and daughter.