Maja is an international lawyer based in The Hague, where she teaches at the Hague Academy of International Law. She serves as Convenor of the Climate Governance Commission since late 2019, and is Co-Chair of the Coordinating Committee for the International Anti-Corruption Court (IACC), as well as The Canadian Task Force Against Global Corruption. She also is Senior Treaty Advisor to Integrity Initiatives International for the development of the IACC Statute. Maja has worked on a wide range of existing and potential global treaties addressing contemporary human rights issues and cross-border legal cooperation, including the pioneering International Hague Network of Judges. She has conducted extensive liaison work with international organizations, global professional associations, NGOs and has played a key role in the convening of international legal expert groups for the purpose of developing new international legal norms. She holds degrees from McGill, Oxford and Harvard Universities, and is an attorney admitted to practice in the state of New York. Maja has served on the International Law and UN Committees of the New York City Bar Association, the (Advisory) Boards of BCorp Europe and ebbf, organizations devoted to ethical business, and is a NOW Partner.

At THE NEW INSTITUTE, Maja is involved as Chair of the program Planetary Governance in the Academic Year 2024/25.