Ronit Avni is an entrepreneur and Peabody award-winner focused on the future of jobs. She is founder and CEO of Localized, a career intelligence platform that connects emerging talent with industry experts to guide them, hands-on training in high-demand skills and access to global employers. The platform offers training and assessments in AI Automation, Carbon Intelligence, Virtual Intelligence and more. The strongest global companies including Google, PayPal, Amazon, Unilever and Cisco and the world’s leading educational institutions across Africa, the Middle East and Latin America have used Localized. Localized also hosts the largest Green Talent Forum for young job seekers globally. Localized is the 2026 Bett Further and Higher Education Technology Award-winner as well as the British Training Awards 2026 prize for "Early Careers Initiatives" in partnership with the University of Cambridge Online.

Named a Young Global Leader through the World Economic Forum in 2009, Ronit is a member of the World Economic Forum’s current Global Future Council (GFC) on the Future of Job Creation and Frontier Technology. She contributed to the October 2025 report, Jobs of Tomorrow and the Future of the World’s Largest Workforces, with a specific focus on construction & AI. Ronit has written chapters for the Routledge International Handbook of Diaspora Diplomacy and the IOM’s The Future of Diasporas about using technology to channel diaspora knowledge remittances at scale.

Previously, Ronit founded and led the media organization, Just Vision, which creates documentary films, news analysis and public education campaigns. She has won dozens of media prizes including the Puma Creative Impact Award, a Peabody, and her team’s work was featured in nearly every major news outlet and viewed by tens of millions of people on TV, online and in influential settings from TED to the United Nations.

Ronit began her career at WITNESS.org, which advises activists and technology companies on the ethical and strategic uses of AI, video and digital technology for human rights and sits on the WITNESS Advisory Council.