Yasmin Green is the Director of Research and Development for Jigsaw, a unit within Alphabet
Inc. focused on solving global security challenges through technology. Yasmin was previously
Head of Strategy and Operations for Google Ideas, now Jigsaw.
At Google, Yasmin served as Head of Sales Strategy and Operations for Southern Europe,
Middle East, and Africa as well as Africa Operations Manager. Before joining Google, she
consulted for Booz Allen Hamilton. Yasmin has experience leading projects in some of the
world’s toughest environments, including Iran, Syria, UAE and Nigeria. In 2012, she led a
multi-partner coalition to launch Against Violent Extremism, the world's first online network of
former violent extremists and survivors of terrorism. Based on her own interviews with ISIS
defectors and jailed recruits, last year Yasmin launched the Redirect Method, a new deployment
of targeted advertising and video to confront online radicalization.
Yasmin is a Senior Advisor on Innovation to Oxford Analytica, a member of the Aspen Cyber
Strategy Group, and until 2015 co-chaired the European Commission's’ Working Group on
Online Radicalization. Yasmin was just named as one of Fortune’s “40 Under 40” most
influential young leaders, and in 2016 was named one of Fast Company's “Most Creative
People in Business.”
Outside of geopolitics and technology, Yasmin pursues her passion for art—in 2016, she
produced the psychedelic papier-mâché art feature film Adam Green’s Aladdin . She also serves
on the Board of the Tory Burch Foundation.
Yasmin received her B.Sc. in Economics from University College London and her M.Sc. in
Management from the London School of Economics and the University of Chicago Graduate
School of Business. Yasmin was also a member of the 1996 England Junior Women’s National
Basketball team.
