Mareme Dieng

Mareme is currently the head of international partnerships and relations at DraperU. She has a 2
year experience working previously as a program manager for Draper University, an intensive
entrepreneurship program in Silicon Valley before endorsing her current position. Mareme has
worked for research centers in Paris (CNRS) and Senegal (ISM). She has also worked as the
Hackathon Manager at Schoolab, an innovation studio based in Paris that offered consultancy in
innovation to top European corporates. She is passionate about human development and
structuring systems that maximize individuals' potential. She has worked with several educational
organizations such as ISM Senegal and the Global Scholar Programs in Johannesburg, and has
developed with them different educational models in order to promote entrepreneurship,
leadership and innovation within the African education system. She has worked with the Global
Startup Ecosystem on the programmation of the Ghana Tech Summit and the Haiti Tech Summit
which both took place in 2018. She has also worked with the Lumina Foundation based in
Indianapolis through a research project with Bennington College on investigating work integrated
learning and the ways we prepare college students for the workforce.