Maura Leary Email & Phone Number

Maura K. Leary is Director of Communications at ACET. She joined ACET after ten years at the World Bank, where she developed impactful communications strategies that address risks and advance key policy positions, with a strong focus on thought leadership, economic progress, and stakeholder engagement.Beginning in 2019 she was the Senior External Affairs Officer responsible for economic issues in Sub-Saharan Africa, and in 2020 she was Acting Manager for the World Bank’s Africa External Affairs team, implementing a dynamic communications and engagement strategy and leading a team of professionals across the African continent and in Washington, DC. She previously advised the World Bank’s Chief Executive Officer on communications, risk, and engagement, and prior to that she managed strategic communications and outreach on poverty reduction, equity, and inequality as the Communications Lead for the World Bank’s Poverty and Equity Global Practice. She began her career at the World Bank as a partnerships and communications specialist on the Gender and Development team.Before joining the World Bank in March 2011, she worked at George Washington University and Tufts University managing academic programs in the United States and France for high school, university, graduate, and adult students. Maura is fluent in English and French, she holds a master’s degree in International Affairs from the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, and a B.A. in French from Connecticut College.

Listed skills include Foreign Policy, International Relations, Policy Analysis, Public Policy, and 14 others.