Meet the Team

Maryam is a founder of X Equals Productions, a creative studio focused on stories that can change the world. She is the Director and Curator of TEDxLondon, co-host of the Climate Curious Podcast and since 2023 has worked with TED as a curator on their climate initiative, Countdown. As a storyteller and coach she has worked with hundreds of speakers, including philanthropists, Nobel-prize-winning academics, business leaders, technical experts, activists and students. She has helped organisations to raise over a $1.5 billion to fight climate change, worked on talks that have been viewed over 25 million times and supported activists who’ve successfully changed the law in England to protect girls from child marriage. In 2020 she became a Visiting Fellow at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford, specialising in impact storytelling and received an honorary Master of the University from the Open University in 2023.