Jamie McAuliffe is director of the Aspen Institute’s Global Opportunity Youth Network, which he launched in 2018 to build the first global network of communities and young leaders committed to advancing approaches to accelerate decent jobs for opportunity youth. Previously, he was president and CEO of Education For Employment, which provides job opportunities for youth across the Middle East and North Africa. Prior to that, McAuliffe was portfolio manager at the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (now Blue Meridian Partners), dedicated to scaling solutions to lift young people out of poverty, and he worked at Ashoka to support social entrepreneurs. A life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he’s an alumnus of Teach for America and the Coro Fellows leadership program, and he was a Schwab Foundation Global Social Entrepreneur.
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Of the 1.2 billion youth aged 15 to 24 worldwide in 2019, close to half were out of school, out of work or underemployed, and this number will continue to grow. Listen as glob...