Myriam Khoury

Biography

Myriam serves as Vice President for Innovation at Mercy Corps where she champions initiatives to spark, support, and scale innovative solutions for social impact in fragile and frontier markets. She helps internal and external entrepreneurs leverage Mercy Corps’ global network of staff and community connections across 40+ countries, and tap into the organization’s many private and public sector relationships. Myriam also serves on Mercy Corps’ Executive Team.

Previously, Myriam oversaw Mercy Corps’ Technical Support Unit whose subject-matter experts help develop partnerships and strategy, conduct cutting-edge research, cultivate organizational learning, and advise teams around the globe. In this role, she helped launch and steward the organizations’ gender integration initiative. She also lived in the Balkans and Caucasus for over a decade where she managed post-conflict development initiatives and dynamic teams. Myriam has a degree from Brown University.