Mona Mourshed

President and Global CEO, Generation; Board Member, New America

Dr. Mona Mourshed is the founding CEO of Generation: You Employed (www.generation.org), a global employment nonprofit that is active in 14 countries and ~30 professions.

Mourshed has decades of experience as a leader in the education and workforce space. She authored widely cited education reports, including Education to Employment: Designing a System That Works, How the World’s Most Improved School Systems Keep Getting Better, and How the World’s Best Performing School Systems Come Out on Top.

Mourshed previously founded and led McKinsey & Company’s global education practice, and led McKinsey’s global social responsibility agenda.

She was selected as one of Fortune Magazine’s “40 under 40,” sits on the board of Teach for All, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mourshed has a B.A. from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from MIT.