Lady Mariéme Jamme
Founder, I Am The Code
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.
She is the Founder of I Am The Code, 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.
She is an award-winning Technologist and a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. In September 2017, she won the Innovation Award at the Global Goals Award by Bill and Melinda Gates and UNICEF as a Goalkeeper to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by supporting girls and young women globally- businesses and governments. 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.
She is the first Senegalese woman who made it to Antarctica. Lady Mariéme is also 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 and young girls' education in Africa.
