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LEED Live Talk

LEED Live Talk with Nadia Ben Bahtane

The LEED Live Talk (LLT) is pleased to host during its next episode taking place on December, 1st 2021 on LEED’s Instagram channel, Nadia Ben Bahtane from Morocco. She is the Brand and Engagement Director in INTELCIA.
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ABOUT US
LEED stands for LEADERSHIP, EMPOWERMENT, EMPLOYABILITY and DIVERSITY. We want to offer young people career perspectives and empower them. LEED sees itself as part of a solution to combat youth unemployment and causes of migration worldwide, to strengthen local economic structures, to encourage women, especially in technical and digital professions, and to help companies to hire the talents and leaders of tomorrow.
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OUR MISSION
We harness the power of technology and digitalization to create opportunities for youth, women and minorities, and to foster the role of institutions. We also reinforce the social responsibility of the private sector, and help them hire the talents of tomorrow to create sustainable economic and social structures.
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OUR VISION
A world where women, youth and minorities are able to use their full potential and skills to have a prosperous and dignified life.
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OUR GOALS
Contribute to building a world of equal opportunities and gender justice while promoting female talent.
Contribute to the creation of socioeconomic prosperity for youth and minorities.
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Our Projects

LEED Live Talk

hosts women role models from all over the world in the digital, tech and cultural industries in a biweekly live program to share their success stories.

Beyond Boxes

An environment-friendly converted shipping container that is a space for incubating entrepreneurs’ ideas and a training center for young talent to boost their placement in the labor market.

Our Team

CEO MENA
Nosra Ayari is the CEO MENA at LEED covering LEED’s operations in the MENA region. Nosra is a senior professional with a record of accomplishment working for thirteen years in Europe and the MENA region in the corporate sector, International NGOs, local CSOs, diplomacy and the donor community. Before LEED, renowned organizations she held senior positions in include Sanofi, Open Society Foundations, Mercy Corps, the Arab Foundations Forum and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. She had successfully implemented multiyear programs in the MENA region covering diverse human rights issues.

Nosra holds an MA in International Relations from Sorbonne University and an MSc in Management from CIFFOP International School of Management in Paris. Nosra holds as well professional certificates in Leadership from Dickinson College and Influencing from the University of Delaware. Her academic research had mainly focused on women’s rights movements, social enterprises and CSR and mentoring. Nosra is fluent in English, French and Arabic. Nosra believes that team work and passion about organizational goals boost creativity and lead to faster organizational growth and impact.
Co-Founder
Jörg Schäffer is a serial entreprenuer, social innovator and Founder of the LEED Initiative. During his studies in Islamic Studies and Economics, Jörg was one of the co-founders of the Middle East magazine Zenith and, as Managing Director, led it to become a leading source of information on the Muslim world in German-speaking countries. In 2014, together with fellow Zenith network members, he founded the privately chartered think tank Candid Foundation.
In addition to his publishing responsibilities at Zenith, Jörg has published numerous books, including bestsellers, at his publishing house Deutscher Levante Verlag. Since 2016, Schäffer has increasingly dedicated himself to the topic of digitalisation, linking it to his work in development cooperation and founding and investing in new innovative start-ups, predominantly in the MENA region, with the aim of creating more jobs and transparency.
His latest venture, TREVEX, offers a digital ecosystem for financial information and B2B matching solutions that brings more transparency to the growth markets of the Middle East and Asia, while providing SMEs with new financing opportunities and thus sustainable growth.
Production Manager
Hossein Takriti is the Production Manager at LEED. He is a Scenographer and Art Director with more than six years’ experience in production.
In Damascus, he co-founded Tajroubeh Troupe, an independent non-profit performance troupe. He conducted workshops with the First Scene Project, and presented his work in the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space.
Hossein has been working closely with several NGOs to produce multimedia videos in cooperation with Lumiere productions. His journey from Syria to Tunisia offered him diverse spaces to create artistic visual projects, especially in video mapping. He also animated conceptual artistic 2D motion graphic videos within several agencies in the MENA region.
In cinema, he managed the artistic direction of the Syrian short movie ‘’Sarah’’ and the montage of ‘’Butterfly, with no doubt’’, another short movie tackling discrimination issues in the Tunisian society.
Hossein holds a BA in Scenography from the Higher Institute of the Dramatic Arts, Damascus, Syria. He is Fluent in Arabic and English.
Project Officer
Mouine Meddeb is the Project Officer at LEED. Mouine is a motivated and ambitious humanitarian worker and multi-skilled Tunisian Engineer specialized in prevention quality management and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, with extensive experience in the monitoring, evaluation, delivery, and design of M&E systems.
Following his passion at a young age, Mouine occupied the position of vice president of the Tunisian NGO APLM where he worked on several projects targeting the subject of refugees, human rights, and entrepreneurship.
Having a particular interest in youth empowerment causes, Mouine served also as a mentor of EVS projects (European Voluntary Service) and as a trainer of non-formal education methods where he developed his expertise by working with international organizations in Italy, Germany, Malta, Serbia, and Greece.
Prior to that, Mouine worked with Mercy Corps Tunisia as MEL officer where he designed M&E systems for community-based projects.
Before joining Mercy Corps, Mouine worked at Reach initiative Libya as a Project Officer leading the activities of the UNICEF Birth registration project in Libya. Mouine is fluent in Arabic, French and English.

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