Maya Ben Dror

Maya Ben Dror works where venture capital, innovation strategy and systems change meet. She is a Venture Partner at Next Gear Ventures, an early-stage fund that invests in sustainable and smart mobility, and co-founder and COO of ComplexChaos, an AI start-up that helps groups find common ground. She also chairs the Women CEO Academy.

Before that she worked at the World Economic Forum. She led its work on the future of mobility, including the Global New Mobility Coalition launched in 2019, and headed the Forum's council of automotive and manufacturing CEOs. Earlier, she was a director at the Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation, working on China's zero-emission vehicle credit mandate, and worked in corporate strategy at Better Place.

Ben Dror holds a PhD from the Technion on transport policy and technology transitions, an MSc in environmental change and management from the University of Oxford and a BSc in economics and East Asian studies from the Hebrew University, where she gives guest lectures.