VEYOM BAHL

Veyom Bahl has worked to advance economic and social justice in New York City, London, Mexico City, and Washington as a social entrepreneur, public servant, and funder.

Since July 2022, he has been a Senior Fellow with MASS Design Group, where he is helping a leading global architecture firm refine and amplify its social and economic impact.  He held a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design in 2021-22, prior to which he was a managing director at Robin Hood, New York City’s largest poverty fighting organization. Over nine years in philanthropy, Veyom designed, supported, and scaled social programs that served more than 100,000 people and secured $300 million in public and private funding nationwide.  His work spanned a wide range of social issues including refugee rights, workforce development, public health, and public benefits.

Before joining Robin Hood, Veyom worked on social enterprise programming at the White House and at the Young Foundation in London. He began his career as a public finance investment banking analyst at Morgan Stanley. Veyom holds a master of science in urban development planning from the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment at University College London and a bachelor of arts in political science from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a founding board member of the American LGBTQ+ Museum and was a Fulbright Scholar to Mexico.