Abby Maxman

Abby Maxman joined Oxfam America as president and CEO in 2017. With more than twenty-five years of experience in international humanitarian relief and development, she brings a strategic focus on country-based programmatic work and addressing broader systems that perpetuate poverty. Maxman also has a particular interest in women’s leadership, on which she is playing an important role in the US NGO community. Prior to joining Oxfam, she served as Deputy Secretary General of CARE International in Geneva providing leadership across the CARE confederation. She previously served as Vice President of International Programs & Operations for CARE overseeing regional and country offices in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. Before CARE, Maxman worked with the U.S. Peace Corps, German Agency for Technical Cooperation, UN World Food Programme, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She has a Bachelor of Arts in History and Political Science from Colorado College and a Master of International Administration from The School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont. Maxman has witnessed the impact of poverty, injustice, war and disaster first hand, and has said she believes the fight against global poverty and inequality is more relevant than now than ever before.