Leila Janah is the Founder and CEO of Sama Group, Co-Founder and CEO of Laxmi, and an award-winning social entrepreneur. Prior to Sama Group, Leila was a visiting scholar with the Stanford Program on Global Justice and Australian National University’s Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. She was a founding director of Incentives for Global Health, an initiative to increase R&D spending on diseases of the poor, and a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.). She has also worked at the World Bank and as a travel writer for Let’s Go in Mozambique, Brazil, and Borneo. Leila is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, a Director of CARE USA, a 2012 TechFellow, recipient of the inaugural Club de Madrid Young Leadership Award, and in 2014, was the youngest person to win a Heinz Award. She received a BA from Harvard and lives in San Francisco. For more information, see www.leilajanah.com

BA @ Harvard University From 2000 to 2005 California Academy of Mathematics and Science From 1996 to 2000 Leila Janah is skilled in: International Development, Social Enterprise, Outsourcing, Crowdsourcing, Social Entrepreneurship, Technology, Workforce Development, Non-profits, Product Management, Social Innovation, Proposal Writing, SaaS, Social Media, Social Business, Research