Bio

Lady Mariéme Jamme is a Senegalese-born, French-British businesswoman with more than two decades of business experience in technology and system change. Her global speeches on humanity and responsibility towards marginalized young girls have received several accolades. As a pioneer in System Change and Technology who supports Global Businesses with their DEI and sustainability policies, she's best renowned for her motivational & inspirational speeches about girls' education through Coding and STEAMD (Science, technology, engineering, mathematics, arts, and design) and empowerment of youth living in marginalized and deprived communities. She experienced considerable hardship during her childhood. She is an award-winning Technologist and a Young Global Leader of the WEF. In September 2017, she won the Innovation Award at the Global Goals Award by Bill & Melinda Gates and UNICEF as a Goalkeeper to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by supporting girls & young women globally. Lady Mariéme has travelled extensively into refugee camps to empower, enable and teach young girls how to code in partnership with UNHCR and the UN agencies. Lady Mariéme's latest venture includes the launch of iamtheCODE.org - the first African-led global movement to mobilize government, the private sector, and philanthropic foundations to advance STEAMD (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics and Design) Education. Her goal is to empower and enable 1 million girls and young women globally to become coders by 2030 and align with the UN 2030 Agenda. Apolitical recently nominated Lady Mariéme as the World's 100 most influential people in Digital Government. As a nominee of one of the BBC's Top 100 Women, she was named twice on the UK Powerlist in 2017 and 2018 for Britain's 100 most influential African and African Caribbean heritage people. Often called the diplomat of technology, Lady Mariéme was also named twice in 2014 and 2016 as one of the 100 most influential Africans by the African Business Magazine. In 2018 Lady Mariéme became a founding member of the Future Talks Expedition, which gathered 100 global leaders from 42 countries to visit the Arctic's the North Pole. She is the first Senegalese woman who made it to Antarctica. Lady Mariéme is on the Board of Directorship of the World Wide Web Foundation (Founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee) and the ITU Generation Connect Visionaries Board. She's currently writing her first book to tell her story. The book will be a memoir of her painful journey. All proceeds will go to the iamtheCODE Foundation.