Papia Debroy is the director of employer strategy and partnerships at Opportunity@Work. From 2015-2016, Opportunity@Work was based at New America.
Prior to joining Opportunity@Work, Debroy served as a research director at CEB, a member-based advisory organization that serves more than eighty percent of the Fortune 1000. In this position, she counseled organizations on their hiring practices, employee engagement approaches, retention policies, competency models and succession plans. She built and managed analytic tools, behavioral assessment solutions as well as leadership development offerings at CEB. To effectively deploy these solutions, Papia designed and led a complex sales enablement strategy, executed a new-to-world marketing approach, created operational processes, managed teams across several continents and built a product architecture that used these tools to deliver quality insight and actionable guidance to several thousand clients across her tenure.
Debroy received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Masters and PhD in political science from the University of Michigan. During graduate school, she worked at the Brookings Institution where she supported research on national security policy. Prior to graduate school, Debroy worked as a research assistant at New America.