Veyom Bahl (he/him) is a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he is exploring new ways for philanthropy to address poverty and racial justice in American cities.  Previously, Veyom 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. Prior to 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’s in Urban Development Planning from the Bartlett at University College London (Distinction) and a bachelor’s in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania (summa cum laude). He was also Fulbright Scholar to Mexico.