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Amit Paley
Experienced CEO & Board Director | Entrepreneur | Advocate
New York, New York
Overview
Amit Paley is a highly accomplished CEO and Board Director with a background in entrepreneurship, strategic communications, and journalism. Currently serving as the CEO and Executive Director of The Trevor Project, he has also held leadership roles at prestigious organizations such as the International Rescue Committee and McKinsey & Company. Amit's career highlights include being recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and serving as an Adjunct Professor at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
Work Experience
Executive Director of the Movement Against Malnutrition
2023 - Current
Entrepreneur in Residence
2023
IRC responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises & helps some of the most vulnerable people from harm to home.
Raised $1,249,999.00 from American Student Assistance, The Pfizer Foundation, U.S. Department of Agriculture and Twilio.org.
Young Global Leader
2021
CEO and Executive Director
2017 - 2023
The Trevor Project is a national organization that provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to the LGBTQ community.
Associate Partner
2011 - 2017
McKinsey Growth Tech serves leading growth stage tech players, venture capital, and growth private equity
Adjunct Professor, Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism
2011 - 2013
George A. Wiegers Fellow
2010 - 2011
Associate, Corporate Planning and Development
2010 - 2011
Staff Writer and Foreign Correspondent
2004 - 2011
Worked as a foreign correspondent in Iraq, financial investigative journalist and national education reporter, among other beats.
Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism
2009 - 2010