Mariah Levin is a builder and executive leader with more than twenty years of international experience founding programmes, strategically transforming institutions, and directing philanthropic capital across Europe, Africa, Asia and North America.
She is Founding Executive Director of beVisioneers: The Mercedes-Benz Fellowship, a global environmental innovation programme she developed from concept to reach thousands of young innovators in more than 45 countries. Previously, Mariah ran the World Economic Forum's Head of the Forum of Young Global Leaders, where she led the foundation's 1,300-member community, its Board relations, and the annual selection of each new class. She has also advised municipal, provincial and federal governments on education, early-childhood and social policy in Canada, and held a Fulbright Fellowship in Ukraine.
Mariah brings expertise in institution building, governance, global grantmaking and cross-sector partnership. She holds degrees from Harvard, The Fletcher School and Wellesley College, serves on the board of Dalberg Catalyst, and has lived and worked across six countries.
The 2020s started with the promise of “a decade of action” for people and planet. But over the past two years, our economies, workplaces and communities have been ravaged by a global pand...
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Women have made considerable strides in the labour force over the past few decades. They are working more hours, pursuing higher education in greater numbers, while also holding more prom...
In our recently published research on Shaping the Sustainable Organization, Accenture and the World Economic Forum outlined what leaders need to put in place to embed the DNA required for...
COVID-19 has challenged the traditional idea of the workplace. Numerous lockdowns and variant outbreaks have transformed physical workspaces – we have seen them become mobile, flexible an...
As the hard won compromises achieved at COP26 cast doubts on whether our leaders have been bold enough in their agreement, we examine the leadership traits organizations require to contri...
The past 18 months haven't been an easy time to be a leader.
When I was 14, I spent Take your Daughter to Work Day doing home visits with my dad, a medical social worker. At one crumbling low-rise in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, we walked up urine-soake...
As we face many more months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the decision taken by leaders - of governments, companies and other organisations - have a bigger impact than ever on the way we live...
If there is one truth that has been illuminated by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is that our previous systems were neither equitable nor sustainable. And if there is one silver lining in the ...
The business case for diversity is ever more pressing. For over a decade, study after study has propagated the same conclusion: A diverse team – representing diverse nationalities, gender...
What does the winner of the FIFA Women's World Cup have in common with the prime minister of Finland? They are both young leaders who gained international repute over the last 12 months. ...
The 2020s are unfolding in a complex context, and they haven’t even begun in earnest. At the end of the last decade, our world witnessed the Amazon and much of Australia burning, a harden...
さまざまな事情で国を後にせざるを得ない人たちの問題は、現代政治の課題です。国を追われた避難民の数は、毎年世界中で新たに増え続け、諸外国からの援助は減り続けています。一方で、多くの人たちが気候変動により将来避難を強いられると予想されており、その兆しは既に表れています。近い将来、移民問題の影響を受ける可能性は、私たち全員にあるのです。
