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How leaders can accelerate the world's sustainable recovery
Six Young Global Leaders give their thoughts on what leaders should prioritize to work towards a more inclusive and sustainable future.
Mariah Levin is a builder and executive leader with more than twenty years of international experience founding programmes, strategically transforming institutions, and directing philanthropic capital across Europe, Africa, Asia and North America.
She is Founding Executive Director of beVisioneers: The Mercedes-Benz Fellowship, a global environmental innovation programme she developed from concept to reach thousands of young innovators in more than 45 countries. Previously, Mariah ran the World Economic Forum's Head of the Forum of Young Global Leaders, where she led the foundation's 1,300-member community, its Board relations, and the annual selection of each new class. She has also advised municipal, provincial and federal governments on education, early-childhood and social policy in Canada, and held a Fulbright Fellowship in Ukraine.
Mariah brings expertise in institution building, governance, global grantmaking and cross-sector partnership. She holds degrees from Harvard, The Fletcher School and Wellesley College, serves on the board of Dalberg Catalyst, and has lived and worked across six countries.
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