Maryana Iskander

Biography

I am the CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia. I spent a decade as the CEO of Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator, a social enterprise building African solutions to tackle the global crisis of youth unemployment. Previously, I served as Chief Operating Officer of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and as the Advisor to the President of Rice University. I earned a B.A. magna cum laude from Rice University, a M.Sc. from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. I am a Trustee of Yale University, the Mellon Foundation, Co-Impact, and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.