As Director of Domestic and International Projects, Myriam Benlamlih oversees a diverse portfolio of domestic and international projects primarily focused on monitoring, evaluation, and research. She also manages and supports a team of project managers, researchers, analysts, and subject matter experts to ensure they successfully complete projects for a variety of clients, including foundations, not for profit organizations, and Local, State, and Federal Government.
Over the past twenty years, she has learned to conduct culturally responsive research among hard-to-reach populations in the United States and across the globe, including refugees, people with little access to communication technologies, people living in deep-rural areas, and economically and socially marginalized communities. Throughout her career, Myriam has helped conduct research and evaluate public health, public diplomacy, counter-terrorism, international development, and international media projects across more than 60 countries around the world, spanning every continent. Some of her clients include the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Defense.
Myriam holds a double master’s in Global Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Southern California and a bachelor’s degree from Mount Holyoke College, where she majored in Economics and minored in Psychology.