Maryana Iskander is CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia. She spent 10 years as CEO of Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator in South Africa, winning the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2019. Prior to this, she served as Chief Operating Officer of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, was an associate at McKinsey & Company, and a law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She earned a B.A. magna cum laude from Rice University, an M.Sc. from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. She is a Henry Crown Fellow and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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