Speaker

Yasmine Green

Yasmin Green is the Director of Research and Development for Jigsaw, a technology incubator within Alphabet Inc. focused on solving global security challenges through technology. She was previously Head of Strategy and Operations for Google Ideas, now Jigsaw.

 

At Google, Ms. Green served as Head of Sales Strategy and Operations for Southern Europe, Middle East, and Africa as well as Africa Operations Manager. Before joining Google, she consulted for Booz Allen Hamilton. Ms. Green has experience leading projects in some of the world’s toughest environments, including Iran, Syria, UAE and Nigeria. In 2012, she led a multipartner coalition to launch Against Violent Extremism, the world's first online network of former violent extremists and survivors of terrorism. Based on her own interviews with ISIS defectors and jailed recruits, last year Ms. Green launched the Redirect Method, a new deployment of targeted advertising and video to confront online radicalization.

 

Ms. Green received her B.Sc. in Economics from University College London and her M.Sc. in Management from the London School of Economics and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Ms. Green was also a member of the 1996 England Junior Women’s National Basketball team.