Wikimania 2024

Maryana Iskander

Maryana Iskander (she/her) is the Chief Executive Officer, a senior staff officer of the Wikimedia Foundation, overseeing the operations of the Foundation and its professional staff. She reports to the Board of Trustees and is supported by the Office of the CEO.

Maryana joined the Wikimedia Foundation after a decade as the CEO of Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator, a non-profit social enterprise focused on building African solutions to tackle the global crisis of youth unemployment. She has also served as Chief Operating Officer of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a volunteer-led social movement.

Maryana was born in Cairo, Egypt, before emigrating with her parents to the United States. Since then, she has lived and studied in the United States and Europe before settling in South Africa.

Her career has been shaped by work that melds people, impact, and technology to break down barriers and increase access to opportunity.


Sessions

08-08
17:00
55min
Fireside Chat with the Wikimedia Foundation Executives
Maryana Iskander, Selena Deckelmann, Lisa Seitz-Gruwell

Join the Wikimedia Foundation executives for a casual conversation and open Q&A about priorities, progress and the future.

Keynote session
Kyiv Auditorium (interpretation)
08-09
11:00
55min
Open Conversation with the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Victoria, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Dariusz Jemielniak, Kathy Collins, Lorenzo Losa, Mike Peel, Nataliia Tymkiv, Raju Narisetti, Luis Bitencourt-Emilio, Jimmy Wales, Maryana Iskander

Chat with the Wikimedia Foundation trustees about the pressing issues facing Wikimedia.

Governance & Strategy (alternatively, Governance or Strategy)
Lviv (21+22+23) (interpretation)