From paralympian to water security specialist: Meet the 2024 class of Young Global Leaders
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Two members of the Community Jameel network of supported scientists and researchers, Anna Schrimpf and Fadel Adib, have been named as Class of 2024 Young Global Leaders, in the academia/think-tank sector.
Anna Schrimpf is the executive director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) Europe, where she provides strategic and administrative direction to J-PAL's research and policy efforts to alleviate poverty. She is a specialist in political science and developing global education access, and has supported the work of non-governmental organisations, think-tanks and government agencies in America and Europe. Anna is also an active researcher and currently a co-principal investigator on a large childhood immunisation study conducted by J-PAL South Asia.
Fadel Adib was a 2019 principal investigator at the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) and former principal investigator at the MIT Jameel Clinic. As an associate professor at MIT's D-Lab, his research group develops innovative technologies and algorithms for wireless perception, networking and sensing. Fadel's 2019 J-WAFS funded research project, 'Learning food and water contaminants using wireless signals', responded to food safety and foodborne illness challenges by developing a food safety sensor that uses wireless signals to determine food quality and safety using an RFID sticker placed on a food product’s container.
For 20 years, the Forum of Young Global Leaders has cultivated a unique community of leaders who are seen as dedicated to tackling the world's most pressing problems.
- The World Economic Forum unveils 2024's most promising Young Global Leaders: A dynamic and diverse cohort of changemakers, under the age of 40, driving impact across the fields of public health, economic development, technology, sustainability, and more.
- They join the Forum of Young Global Leaders, whose members have gone on to become Pulitzer winners, UN Goodwill Ambassadors, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and heads of state.
- Discover the new Young Global Leader (YGL) class on www.wef.ch/ygl24