Jana Yamani is the Secretary General of the Scholarship Committee at the Saudi Arabia Royal Court, and the Managing Director of Project1932, the largest mentorship platform in the region. She is a board director of Namaa Al Munawara and YPO – Saudi Chapter.
She has previously been a member of boards including Anghami and Muvi Cinemas, where she chaired the remuneration and nominations committee.
Previously Ms Yamani was the CEO of MBC Academy & MBC Talent & MBC Hope, and an Executive Director in MBC Group.
Before that, she was the Executive Manager of Fellowships and Traineeships at Misk, the Crown Prince’s Foundation. During her time there, she helped train over 30,000 Saudi leaders through diverse global and regional programs across fields and stages.
Ms Yamani was the Founder & CEO of JY Consulting, a management consulting and business advisory firm. Prior to that, she was a Senior Associate in McKinsey & Company in Dubai. She then moved to Silicon Valley to lead B2B services for Medallia Inc, a unicorn technology company that builds customer experience solutions for the world’s top brands, including Apple, IBM, Adidas and Four Seasons.
Ms Yamani graduated with a master’s degree in Computation for Design and Optimization from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she was also a Graduate Community Fellow and VP of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
She earned a double bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Northeastern university, where her thesis won the university’s Best Undergraduate Research Award in 2009.
She was also the first Saudi female elected president for a US student organisation. Ms Yamani is a mother of five and resides in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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