Title: Director of Strategic Assessment and Impact and Assistant to the President
Organization: John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Mayur Patel joined Knight Foundation in January 2009. He is responsible for leading the foundation's research and works closely with program teams and grantees to assess the impact and effectiveness of the foundation's work.
Patel was a project associate with the Global Economic Governance Programme at the University of Oxford, involved in research on international institutions and economic affairs, and was a doctoral fellow with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva. He has served as a consultant to Oxfam's offices in the UK and in Nairobi, Kenya, and as a policy adviser on trade and investment to Realizing Rights, an NGO based in New York.
He has previously worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Zimbabwe, his home country, on issues of civic engagement and parliamentary support. Patel, a Rhodes Scholar, is completing a doctorate in international development at the University of Oxford, from which he also earned a masters degree. Prior to attending Oxford, he was awarded a bachelors degree in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). In 2003, Patel was a recipient of a Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Award.
