Maryam Mujica is the Chief Public Policy Officer at General Catalyst Institute. Maryam brings a wealth of government and industry expertise with over 15 years of experience working on a range of important issues relating to national security and tech policy.  

Maryam began her career as a litigation attorney but soon realized her passion was to serve in government where she could work on complex foreign policy issues the US was facing abroad. While at the US Department of State and The White House’s National Security Council, she worked on national security challenges the US was facing in the Middle East such as the Iran nuclear talks, the Benghazi attack, and destabilization throughout the region due to the Syrian civil war. 

The use of technology during the Arab Spring spurred Maryam’s interest to join the tech sector. She first joined Twitter’s Public Policy team followed by leading Google’s Emerging Markets portfolio for their Government Affairs team. While at Twitter and Google, she worked on a range of issues such as countering violent extremism to connecting the next billion users to the internet. Maryam most recently joined us from Booking Holdings where she led the company’s public policy strategy for all their brands (Booking.com, Kayak, Priceline & Agoda) throughout the Americas. 

Maryam obtained her undergraduate degree from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She attended Santa Clara University Law School and obtained a Master’s Certificate in Public Administration from the University of Virginia. She is licensed to practice law in California. She speaks Spanish and is conversant in French and Farsi. Maryam is based in Washington, DC where she lives with her husband and daughter.