Ahava works to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals through policy change and stakeholder collaborations. Her expertise is in partnership development and strategy, focusing on engaging marginalized religious communities, gender equality, and leveraging investments towards no poverty and protecting the earth’s natural resources. Internally Ahava streamlines teams, increasing collaboration and optimizing talent. Externally, she pushes for non-partisan partnerships, in the public and private sectors to increase financial capacity and impact.
Ahava served as the Head of Diplomacy for the Serbian Flood Relief (2014), Haiti Earthquake Response Facilitator between the Clinton Foundation, Partners in Health, Israeli Defense Forces, and the Toronto Jewish Federation (Jan – April 2010), and helped form the Cisco-Akvo collaboration increasing open data usage to 30 million users. Ahava recently served as the Chief Executive Officer of the startup Sun Buckets bringing clean cooking to lower-income countries.
Ahava is the author of Refracted Vision: An Analysis of Religious-Secular Tensions in Israel (The Floersheimer Institute for Policy Studies, 2005), Advancing Religious-Secular Relations in Israel: How the International Community Can Help (World Security Network, 2005), and Israel’s Religious Right – Not a Monolith (Middle East Forum) Ahava holds a MA from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies with a focus on International Economics and Conflict Management.