Maya Goldman is a researcher in SALDRU, a research associate with the Commitment to Equity Institute, a Research-in-use fellow at the Global Development Network and consults for the World Bank, the French Development Agency, and the International Growth Centre, among other bodies. She has a Masters in Economics (Public Policy and Development) from Toulouse School of Economics and has worked as an ODI Fellow in the governments of East Timor and Burundi. She tries to combine academic rigour and policy-relevance in her work, and is passionate about imagining a more equitable economic system where inequality and poverty are not inevitable.