Leena is a strategic thinker who has been an investment manager, business owner, social entrepreneur and international conflict resolution and peace building consultant since embarking on her career in 1989. She is committed to integrating best practices from the business and social sectors in support of good causes globally.

Her geographic and start-up expertise consists of South and South-East Asia, the Middle East and North Africa in the field of conflict mitigation programming; Latin America and Emerging Europe/Middle East/Africa in investment management; and London, Washington DC, and Puerto Rico in the business sector.

Leena has published several articles, spoken extensively on radio and TV, and addressed diverse audiences globally on cross-cultural and interfaith issues. She is a member of the UN’s Alliance of Civilizations “Global Experts”. Her experience in investment management was garnered at British houses Schroders, Foreign and Colonial, and Rothschild’s, and at the Dutch ABN AMRO. She studied Economics at the American University of Beirut and Oxford University and speaks Arabic, English, French, Spanish and Sierra Leonean Krio.

Leena is an affiliate member of the Chartered Financial Analysts Institute, serves on the board of American Near East Refugee Aid, and since 2014 has been an oral examiner for Georgetown University’s M.S. Foreign Service program.