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Maryana Iskander ( / ˌmæriˈænə ɪˈskændər / MARR-ee-AN-ə isk-AN-dər; [ 1] Arabic: ماريانا إسكندر; born September 1, 1975) [ 2] is an Egyptian-born American social entrepreneur and lawyer. In 2022, she became the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Wikimedia Foundation, succeeding Katherine Maher.
Sep 14, 2021 · As CEO of Wikimedia Foundation, the global nonprofit organization that supports Wikipedia and 12 other free knowledge projects, Maryana will champion the organization’s goal to ensure that people everywhere can access and share knowledge freely. She will formally begin on January 5, 2022 and report to the Foundation’s Board of Trustees.
What will it take to create —not just imagine—a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge? The answer, according to Maryana Iskander, Wikimedia’s new Chief Executive Officer: activating a truly global community in our shared work.
Mar 5, 2021 · View Maryana Iskander’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members. I am the CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia. I spent…
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Sep 23, 2021 · Last week, the Wikimedia Foundation, the group that oversees Wikipedia, announced that Maryana Iskander, a social entrepreneur in South Africa who has worked for years in nonprofits tackling...
Maryana Iskander is chief executive officer of the Wikimedia Foundation, where she oversees one of the top 10 websites in the world — Wikipedia, an online, collaborative encyclopedia built on the idea that knowledge should be neutral, free, and widely accessible.
Sep 14, 2021 · Sept 14 (Reuters) - The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, said on Tuesday it has appointed social entrepreneur Maryana Iskander as its chief executive...