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.
We have a U.S. program that we started earlier this year. We hired a director last year in November. For me, given the rapid expansion of SamaSource and some of these other ventures I'm trying to work on, I have learned that I have to be good at delegating and try to find really trusted people who...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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