Veyom Bahl

Senior Director, Strategy & Impact
Boston, MA, USA

Veyom Bahl believes that we are all entitled to lives filled with beauty and opportunity. He is passionate about undoing the ways that poverty, racism, and climate change have been embedded into the fabric of our communities.

As MASS Design Group’s first Senior Director of Strategy & Impact, Veyom oversees strategic planning and impact evaluation for MASS as a whole and for the design studios in North America and Africa. He also builds partnerships to support MASS’s advocacy, impact, and research agendas.  

Outside of MASS, Veyom is a founding board member of the American LGBTQ+ Museum, one of the only museums in the world dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history and culture of LGBTQ+ people.  He has led strategic planning and fundraising to help bring this project to life in New York City and online.  

Raised in California in an immigrant family, Veyom has cultivated a wealth of experiences across cities and professional roles. He has lived in Mexico City, London, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington and worked at the White House, the Young Foundation, and Morgan Stanley. Notably, as a Managing Director at the Robin Hood Foundation, Veyom managed a $30-million portfolio of partnerships with 100 nonprofits and government agencies tackling poverty in New York City. 

He holds a Master in Urban Development Planning from the Bartlett and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor in Political Science. He was a Fulbright Scholar to Mexico and a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.