Katherine Maher
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | New York University |
| Occupation | Interim executive director, Wikimedia Foundation |
| Website | @krmaher on Twitter |
Katherine "Kate" Maher is the interim executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) from March 2016. She has previously worked for the World Bank, UNICEF, and at AccessNow.org, where she was their advocacy director.
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Education
Maher was educated at the Arabic Language Institute of the American University in Cairo from 2002 to 2003, and New York University's College of Arts and Science from 2003 from where she received her bachelor's degree in 2005.[1]
Career
Maher is the interim executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) from March 2016. She has previously worked for the World Bank, UNICEF, and at AccessNow.org,[2] where she was their advocacy director.[3][4][5]
At the World Bank, Maher was a consultant in technology for international development and democratization, working on ICT for accountability and governance, focusing on the role of mobile phones and other technologies in facilitating civil society and institutional reform, particularly in the Middle East and Africa.[6][7] She co-authored a chapter on "Making Government Mobile" of a World Bank publication about "Information and Communications for Development: Maximizing Mobile" (2012).[8]
Maher joined the WMF as its chief communications officer in April 2014,[4][9][10] and became the interim executive director almost two years later, in March 2016,[3] following the resignation of Lila Tretikov.[11]
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