Speaker Bio

Jeremy Hockenstein, Founder and CEO, Digital Data Divide

HockensteinCurrently a strategy consultant for nonprofit and profit entities, Jeremy Hockenstein began his consultancy career at McKinsey & Company. Mr. Hockenstein also served as the Chief Operating Officer at a nonprofit, Harvard Hillel, where he helped catalyze and lead an organizational transformation to implement a new strategic program plan.

A graduate of Harvard University, MIT Sloan School of Management and a McKinsey & Company alumnus, Mr. Hockenstein co-founded Digital Divide Data (DDD), a data entry and digitalization service company in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. DDD is an NGO that employs disadvantaged youth, people with disabilities and abused women and provides them with a first work experience, a stable income and skills training.

As a business, DDD is building an export-oriented IT-enabled services sector in the local economy and is now the largest technology related employer in Cambodia. DDD has been recognized globally for its groundbreaking economic development model. It received the World Bank’s Development Marketplace Award from the International Finance Corporation and was profiled in Thomas Friedman’s book The World is Flat.


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