Mara Kronenfeld is an American international development specialist and executive director of UNRWA (UN Relief & Works Agency) USA, the nonprofit that supports the work of the United Nations relief work. Mara has worked in collaboration with partners such as the World Bank, USAID, OCP Foundation (Morocco), Hilton, Samsung, JP Morgan, Saudi Aramco, the King Khalid Foundation, and hundreds of local NGOs and community based organization across the Middle East and North Africa. Mara holds a Masters Degree in Near Eastern Studies from New York University and a Bachelors Degree in Anthropology from Stanford University.