Staff Detail - Mayur Patel

Mayur Patel joined Knight Foundation in 2009.  As director of strategic assessment and assistant to the president, he is responsible for aiding ongoing strategy development, strengthening research and knowledge management capabilities and assessing the impact and effectiveness of the foundation’s efforts.

Patel was previously 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 Organization (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 on issues of civic engagement and parliamentary support.

A Rhodes Scholar, Patel is completing a doctorate in international development at the University of Oxford, from which he also earned a master’s degree. Prior to attending Oxford, he was awarded a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is a Junior Fellow with the EVA Business and Policy Forum based in Helsinki. In 2003, Patel was a recipient of a Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Award.