Maeve Atkins is a Communications Officer at the British Embassy in Washington. Maeve is responsible for communicating the UK’s prosperity agenda within the US, focusing on areas including business, science and innovation, climate change, the creative arts and other elements which showcase GREAT Britain. She has spent her life traveling to and from Derry (Londonderry), Northern Ireland, where her mother’s family still lives and works. Maeve earned a degree in communications, with a concentration in public relations, at the University of Maryland, College Park, and now resides in Washington, DC.