Maya Vijayaraghavan advises on evaluation methods and leads knowledge management initiatives at the Independent Evaluation Department (IED) of the Asian Development Bank. In her previous role, she led IED’s evaluation capacity development initiatives for internal and external stakeholders. In collaboration with the Asia-Pacific Finance and Development Institute, she led the Secretariat of the 2019 and 2020 Asian Evaluation Week. As an evaluator, she assessed the Bank’s policies, strategies, and operations at the thematic, country, sector, and project level. Maya was previously with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, where she led impact and economic evaluations of international health programs at global, regional, and country levels. Early in her career, she was an econometrician with the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C. Maya has a PhD in applied economics.