Maryana Iskander
Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator
CEO
I am currently the chief executive officer at Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator, a not-for-profit company that partners with South African employers to source, place and successfully retain young, first-time work seekers. From 2006-2012, I served as chief operating officer of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in New York, a US$1billion national operation, and I currently sit on the board of directors. I have held positions as an associate at global business consultancy McKinsey & Co., a strategy consultant for W.L. Gore & Associates, and a law clerk at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York, and Vinson & Elkins in Houston. I also served as adviser to the President of Rice University and as a law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. 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.