Maha Jweied is the CEO of the Responsible Business Initiative for Justice. She is an international expert on access to justice and has dedicated her career to advancing legal and policy reform to improve systems of justice.

Prior to joining RBIJ, Ms. Jweied worked with several organizations that partner with the business community to advance access to justice policy and practice in the United States, Europe, and across the globe.She also spent nearly a dozen years in the federal

Executive Branch and led the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office for Access to Justice and served as the Executive Director of the White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable and the U.S. Government’s expert on Sustainable Development Goal 16.  

She is a member of the Council for Inclusive Capitalism, the Council on Criminal Justice, The American Law Institute, the International Experts Panel of the Open Government Partnership’s Independent Reporting Mechanism, and the Leadership Council of Frontline

Justice. She is also Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of New Perimeter (the nonprofit affiliate of the law firm of DLA Piper) and an Advisor to the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies.

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