Maya Duru

Associate Director of Education, J-PAL Global

Maya joined J-PAL as the Associate Director of Education in 2018. She is responsible for the management and development of the new MITx MicroMasters in Data, Economics, and Development Policy and well as the Department of Economics's blended Master’s in Data, Economics, and Development Policy, which will launch in Spring 2020.

Maya holds a PhD in political science from UC San Diego. She worked as the Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Manager for One Acre Fund prior to joining J-PAL.