Emily Musil

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ABOUT EMILY MUSIL

Emily Musil, PhD, is Managing Director at Milken Strategic Philanthropy, where she leads the Social Impact portfolio. An expert in future-focused, high-impact engagement and programming, Emily and her team create strategies for expansive and effective giving, and design and operate programs using a range of tools focused on innovation and impact. Under her leadership, she has built the Milken Institute Prize & Award Program, and has created wide- ranging programming including mobilizing and supporting hundreds of entrepreneurs working on FinTech in emerging economies, and cross-sector workshops to design new solutions to create thriving communities in the US.Emily spent over a decade in academia as a college professor of History and International Studies. She then joined the XPRIZE Foundation where she led the education and human equity domain, operating initiatives and large-scale innovation competitions to find and test new technology solutions to solve global challenges. She is passionate about exploring the ethics of our rapidly advancing technologies.She has a Ph.D. and M.A. from UCLA, and graduated with honors from Drew University. She won a Fulbright-Hays Research Fellowship and conducted in-depth research in over a dozen countries on three continents. She has served on the OECD’s Senior Advisory Group for Blended Finance and the Advisory Board for CompTIA’s Center for Technology & Workforce Solutions (CTWS). She currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Drew University.