JANA LEVENE
She/Her
Currently based in New York City, Jana works in business development for Google Assistant, Google’s flagship AI product. Prior to this, Jana worked in business development for (i) Area 120, a workshop for Google’s experimental products, (ii) X, Alphabet's moonshot factory that has launched self-driving car, Internet-powered balloons and clean energy kites projects and (iii) Jigsaw, an incubator that builds technology to solve complex global security challenges.
Previously, Jana was based in Google's Singapore office leading new market development for Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Cambodia and Nepal. Jana's work ranged from accelerating growth in Internet penetration, to helping businesses digitize and grow online, to influencing policy-making to support a free and open Internet.
Jana is an Advisory Board member at Code to Inspire, a non-profit that has built Afghanistan’s first coding school for girls. Code to Inspire is committed to developing technical literacy and creating safe employment opportunities in computer science and technology for women in Afghanistan.
Jana serves as an Advisory Council member at non-profit Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the nation’s leading provider of and advocate for high quality, affordable healthcare.
Jana is a mentor to non-profit We Are Family Foundation's Global Teen Leaders, who are leading international projects addressing issues related to basic human needs, including food, water, health, shelter, safety, education and environment.
Jana holds an MBA from INSEAD in France and Singapore, where she won first and second place in INSEAD’s two entrepreneurship investment pitch competitions. Additionally, Jana holds a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University in Canada, during which time she studied Mandarin and International Business at Peking University in China and Central European University in Hungary, respectively.