Roxane Jurkovskaja, Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder, The D., Open Innovation 2.0 (OI 2.0), HackaMENA, United Nations Alliance of Civilizations

Roxane is an entrepreneur and strategic business developer with experience from the United Nations, NGOs, and startups in Africa, Asia, MENA, Europe and the USA. She is passionate about economic and social improvement and how we can apply purpose-driven tech to solve global challenges. She has been a consultant for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations since 2012, supporting the development of the Entrepreneurs for Social Change programme. In 2014 she co-founded Hacka{MENA}, which has the mission to promote and inspire technopreneurship and the development of purpose-driven tech that has a positive social impact in the MENA region. At the moment she is building OI 2.0 in Dubai, which brings together talented members of the diverse community and organisations from the public, private and people sectors to consider challenges, collaborate on ideas and co-create new solutions for the future. Besides this she is supporting the development of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the MENA region and figuring out how we can measure “impact” and “change” more effectively through open data. She holds a double-degree M.Sc. in Economics and International Management from Copenhagen Business School and the National University of Singapore. Originally from the island of Sakhalin, but grew up in Denmark and currently based between Copenhagen, Denmark and Dubai, UAE. Linkedin: https://ae.linkedin.com/in/jurkovskaja; Web: www.thed.io; www.hackamena.com; www.hackaexpo.com;  : www.unaocyouth.org/e4sc