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Mariéme Jamme was born in Dakar, Senegal and grew up in France. An established entrepreneur and founder of the Mariéme Jamme Foundation, she is passionate, dedicated to helping to empower women, men and children through education, health, wealth and entrepreneurship across the globe.
Marieme describes herself as a social entrepreneur and is currently the President of SpotOne Global Solutions Group a successful company that helps organizations establish a foothold in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia. She recently founded iConscience.co.uk, an organization that enables business experts and like-minded individuals to share their expertise and experience in the name of sustainability, development, ethics and morals.
She studied in Lyon, in Paris, in Philadelphia, in Japan and in Guildford, Surrey where she recently studied for an MBA in Corporate Technology and Business Development whilst being a single mother. Prior to establishing her companies, she worked at the Citibank, JP Morgan, LTSB and in various software companies such as Primavera INC, Microsoft and CA.
Mariéme is also described as the first female African strategist. Her passion and tenacity in helping African countries become more sustainable through education, combating the negative images generated by a single country in Africa, is well known.
Mariéme works with, and has supported, many NGOs around the globe, including Enda Tiers Monde, and the Hunger Project. Through her charitable missions Marieme met Annie Lenox, Sir Bob Geldof and Youssou Ndour (singer of 7second). Mariéme’s spare time is spent with children and women. She is an adviser and supporter of many women and children charities such as the NSPCC, Oxfam, Plan International and the Children Society - she adores children. Her main residence is in Guildford where she has spent more than 13 years but she travel between continents fto fulfil her commitments.
Her current work includes advising the UK Home Office on how to help African women sustain themselves in Africa by transferring knowledge and skills and speaking in various countries about poverty in Africa, social entrepreneurship, empowerment of women and men, and sustainability in women's development across the globe.
She has multiple nationalities, lived in Japan for two years and speaks many languages including French, Japanese and Wolof.
