Alen Amini is the current director at OpenWorm. Prior to this, they worked at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), the Council on Foreign Relations, Haaretz, and The Bridgespan Group. Alen was a Fulbright Scholar from January 2018 to December 2018 and an associate at The World Bank from January 2018 to December 2020. From 2016 to 2017, they worked as the executive director of the southeast Arkansas region for the Arkansas Community Foundation. From 2009 to 2015, they were the managing director of Jamshid Antique Oriental Rugs.
Alen Amini has a Master of Business Administration from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School. Alen also has a Master of Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education.