Marieme Jamme is an award-winning technologist and pioneer in system change and a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. In Sept 2017, she won the Innovation Award at the Global Goals Award 2017 by UNICEF and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as a GoalKeeper for her work in advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, supporting globally young women and girls and governments. A BBC 100 Women nominee, she was named twice on the UK Powerlist 2017 and 2018 of Britain’s 100 most influential people of African and African Caribbean Heritage. She also recently joined forces with a group of African leaders to create Accur8Africa, a new platform aiming at enabling governments, businesses, entrepreneurs and the civil society in Africa at measuring the success of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 with Accurate Data.

She was honoured as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum for her activism work in empowering and investing in young women and girls in Africa through Creative learning, entrepreneurship, science, technology, engineering, art, mathematics, and design (STEAMD). Marieme’s latest venture includes the launch of IAMTHECODE, as the first African- led global movement aiming at mobilising governments, businesses and investors to support girls and young women in STEAMD (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics, and Design). Her goal is to empower 1 million young women and girls globally to become coders by 2030 and to align with the United Nations 2030 Agenda. Mariéme is the newest board member of the Worldwide Web Foundation. She will be supporting the foundation in the area of gender and digital equality. Mariéme is the first black woman to be named and invited to be part of the UBS Group Global visionaries’ program. 

In 2018, Mariéme became a founding member of the Future Talks Expedition, which gathered 100 global leaders from 42 countries to visit the Arctic (North Pole.) She is the first Senegalese woman who made it to the Arctic. Marieme was nominated in October 2019 by Apolitical as one of 100 most influential people in Digital Government.