Leila Janah is the Founder and CEO of Sama Group, Co-Founder and CEO of LXMI, and an award-winning social entrepreneur. Her work focuses on bringing living-wage jobs to poor women and youth to reduce poverty and build better communities.

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