Jamie McAuliffe

Jamie McAuliffe is the Founding Director of The Aspen Institute’s Global Opportunity Youth Network (GOYN), a network of community partners and young leaders committed to advancing cross-sector, systemic approaches to accelerate decent jobs for youth.  GOYN works in 20 communities across India, Africa, and Latin America and has connected over 500K Opportunity Youth to economic opportunity. Previously, Jamie was President & CEO of Education For Employment (EFE) where he grew the organization to provide job opportunities for tens of thousands of youth across the Middle East & North Africa. Prior to EFE, Jamie was Portfolio Manager at the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (now Blue Meridian Partners), a foundation dedicated to scaling solutions to lift young people out of poverty. Early in his career, Jamie worked at Ashoka to support global social entrepreneurs. He has degrees from Georgetown and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.