Maya Berlinger is an MPP candidate at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs specializing in climate and energy. She is focused on expanding energy access and accelerating renewables deployment in the Global South, particularly through innovative financing mechanisms and improved public-private collaboration. 

Prior to Yale, Maya worked at Y Analytics, where she led impact assessments for energy and adaptation and resilience-related deals for the TPG Rise Climate Fund to support climate investment decision-making. Maya previously worked at McKinsey & Company, where she advised public, private, and social sector clients on driving the energy transition and scaling global partnerships for climate and nature. In that role, she published a report with the World Economic Forum on financing climate and nature projects and another with the McKinsey Global Institute on the state of the energy transition. She has also served as a fellow with the World Economic Forum’s Giving to Amplify Earth Action initiative. 

Maya holds a bachelor’s degree in materials science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she focused her coursework and conducted research on energy transition topics. She was also selected for an exchange program at the University of Oxford, where she researched novel battery chemistries.