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Leila Chirayath Janah is the founder of Samasource, a social business that creates jobs in low-income countries by connecting small service businesses to a global client base. Samasource won the Business in Development Challenge in 2007 and the Stanford Social E Challenge in 2008. Through her work at Samasource, Leila has been invited to serve as a Social Enterprise Institute Fellow and speak at various conferences on technology, development, and social entrepreneurship.
Prior to Samasource, Janah co-founded Incentives for Global Health to develop new financing mechanisms for pharmaceutical R&D on diseases of the poor. She has served as a Visiting Scholar with the Stanford Program on Global Justice and a Visiting Researcher at Australian National University’s Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. She holds a BA in African Development Studies from Harvard University.
