Lindsey Nefesh-Clarke

Speaker Bio

Lindsey Nefesh-Clarke is the Founder & CEO of W4 (https://www.w4.org/en/), an international non-profit organization and Europe’s first crowdfunding platform dedicated to protecting girls’ and women’s human rights and promoting girls’ and women’s empowerment around the world, with a focus on Sustainable Development Goal 5b: harnessing technologies. Within the framework of EQUALS, the global partnership for gender equality in the digital age, W4 is a co-founder of the global Her Digital Skills initiative - alongside the International Telecommunication Union, GSMA & EY - which provides girls & women with access to free, gender-transformative digital skills training & mentoring opportunities. With a B.A. from Cambridge University & an Executive MBA from ESCP Europe, Lindsey worked in human rights and development in Africa and Asia (Human Rights Watch, UNICEF, Enfants d’Asie) before founding W4. Named a “Women in IT Role Model” by the European Commission and one of the “Inspiring Fifty” women leaders in Europe’s technology sector, Lindsey is also a member of the strategic advisory committee of UN Women France.