Rajiv Maher's research specializes in the impacts of Corporate Social Responsibility practices since 2007 and more recently also in Human Rights and Business. As a consultant, he has experience with the IFC (World Bank's private sector investment bank). Within the extractive industry he has field work experience in mining communities in Chile, Brazil and Peru, and also in other natural resource sectors in the same countries, in addition to Guatemala. Through academic research, Maher tries to evaluate empirically in diverse communities the impact and effectiveness of social responsibility practices and strategies in Latin America. He has published several articles (both academic and non-academic) on this topic.