Leila Janah is the Founder and CEO of Samasource, a non-profit social business that gives digital work to impoverished people around the world.
Prior to Samasource, Janah was a 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 Janah received a BA from Harvard.
After spending a lot of time working in the pure NGO sector that was really, you know, almost antagonistic towards big corporations, I realized that by not engaging the biggest institutions in the world for job creation, we are doing the poor a disservice. And the pragmatist in me says we can talk ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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