Saran Kaba Jones | |
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Nationality | Liberian/American |
Occupation(s) | Founder and CEO of FACE Africa WEF Young Global Leader 2013 |
Website | www |
Saran Kaba Jones (born 21 June 1982) is a clean water advocate and social entrepreneur from Liberia. She is the founder of FACE Africa, an organization working to strengthen water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) infrastructure and services in rural communities across sub-Saharan Africa.[1] She is World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a 2016 TIME Magazine Next Generation Leader.[2] Her work with FACE Africa has been profiled in the Boston Globe,[3] and CNN Inside Africa.[4][5]
Jones was born in Monrovia, Liberia, where she lived for the first eight years of her life. She and her family moved to Cote de 'Ivoire in 1989 due to the First Liberian Civil War. They lived there for almost two years with her mother's family before moving to Egypt in 1991 when her father was appointed ambassador of the government of Liberia to the Middle East. She spent four years in Egypt and two years in Cyprus before moving to the United States to attend Lesley College. She then transferred to Harvard College, where she studied Government and International Relations. [6]
Jones spent five years working for a private equity firm for the Singapore government's Economic Development Board, a job she left in August 2010 to concentrate on FACE Africa.[6]
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