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Jeroo Billimoria
Founder and Managing Director, Child and Youth Finance International
The founder of several innovative and award-winning NGOs, Jeroo Billimoria encapsulates what it means to be a social entrepreneur. She is a Skoll awardee, and an Ashoka and Schwab Fellow.
Jeroo is considered among the world’s leading social entrepreneurs and is now working on her ninth entrepreneurial venture.
Among her organizations are Childline India and ChildHelpline International, which have facilitated a global movement for protection of children and youth and are active in more than 181 countries – having responded to over 160 million calls. Her previous organization, Aflatoun, has succeeded in working with global partners to provide social and financial education to over 1 million children in 84 countries.
Jeroo is currently leading CYFI and the Child & Youth Finance Movement to ensure financial inclusion and Economic Citizenship Education for young people worldwide.