Pial Islam serves as the Managing Partner at pi STRATEGY, a role held since March 2009, focusing on strategy formulation and implementation across various sectors, including Financial Services and Digital Transformation. With extensive experience leading over 50 client engagements globally for high-profile organizations such as the World Bank and United Nations, Pial also contributes as a Governing Board Member at the Bangladesh Youth Leadership Center. Previously, Pial was a Global Leadership Fellow at the World Economic Forum, overseeing initiatives in digital ecosystems and governance frameworks, and held positions at Harvard Business School as a Research Associate and at Capgemini Consulting as a Consulting Manager. Pial's foundational career includes creating the first professional digital design studio in Bangladesh at Grameen CyberNet Ltd. Pial's educational credentials include an MPA in International Economics from Harvard Kennedy School and an MBA in Strategy from The University of British Columbia.
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Bangladesh Youth Leadership Center (BYLC)
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The challenges that confront Bangladesh today are immense, complex, and disparate. We are threatened by the onslaught of infectious diseases, environmental degradation, violent partisan politics, rising youth unemployment, as well as widening and deepening socio-economic inequalities. We believe that the effectiveness of our response to these challenges depends on the quality of our leadership. We believe that leadership can be exercised by anyone, regardless of socio-economic status or age. This is especially relevant for Bangladesh because 52% of our population is below the age of 25. Our goal is to equip young women and men with skills and connect them to jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities so that they can make meaningful contributions to the private, public, and civil sectors. A cornerstone of our approach involves uniting youth from diverse socio-economic and educational backgrounds because effective leadership requires the capacity to embrace diversity and pluralism. And through this process of empowering youth to act on behalf of issues they care about deeply, we aim to strengthen prosperity, justice, and inclusiveness in society.