Maryana
Iskander
Board of Trustees (elected 2023)
Yale University
Social entrepreneur and lawyer. She was CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation from 2022 to 2026, and before that led the Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator in South Africa. Born in Cairo, she emigrated to the United States with her family at the age of four. Cairo is her birthplace and her home until the family emigrated.
Photo: Gabriel Diamond, via Wikimedia CommonsWikimedia Commons file pageCC BY-SA 4.0
Photo: Gabriel Diamond, via Wikimedia CommonsWikimedia Commons file pageCC BY-SA 4.0
Maryana Iskander
Board of Trustees (elected 2023)
Yale University
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Social entrepreneur and lawyer. She was CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation from 2022 to 2026, and before that led the Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator in South Africa. Born in Cairo, she emigrated to the United States with her family at the age of four. Cairo is her birthplace and her home until the family emigrated.
Education
Rice University
BA · Sociology
1997
Trinity College, Oxford
MSc
1999
Yale Law School
JD
2003
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