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Benje Williams

Cofounder, CEO of Amal Academy

Benje Williams is the Co-founder, CEO of Amal Academy, an education venture that helps Pakistani youth reach their professional potential. In 2014, Amal launched the Career-Prep Fellowship, an intense three-month programme that develops the business skills, learning abilities and mindsets of university students entering the job market. Through support from Stanford University, Acumen and Echoing Green, they have worked with over 700 Amal Fellows – 85 percent of whom have gotten jobs within three months of graduating – and plan to reach 10,000 by 2020. Before Amal, Benje was an Acumen Global Fellow in Lahore. He has also supported entrepreneurs through various roles at Acumen in Kenya and India, has launched an education centre (and a failed energy venture) in Nairobi, and has worked as a management consultant at PwC in New York, at Dalberg in South Africa and at TechnoServe in Kenya. Benje holds an MBA from Stanford University and a BS from UC Berkeley.

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