Mary Louise Cohen
Co Founder @Talent Beyond Boundaries
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Co Founder @Talent Beyond Boundaries
Washington, DC, US
TALENT BEYOND BOUNDARIES: Global Re-employment for Skilled RefugeesThe United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that there are 25 million refugees. Most live precarious lives and have limited access to legal work, education and heath care. The UN now resettles fewer than refugees a year and new solutions are urgently needed. Many refugees have skills should be shared. Instead, refugees who are doctors and nurses, teachers, accountants, engineers, and hundreds of other types of professionals live in poverty or resort to taking low-skill, low-paying jobs, stuck in economic, social, and political limbo. At the same time, 40% employers around the world report that cannot find skilled workers. Talent Beyond Boundaries is working to bring this hidden refugee talent pool into the global labor markets and provide a new solution for skilled refugees. We are pioneering new labor mobility pathway for refugees whose job skills are in demand globally. TBB recently completed a successful first of its kind demonstration project (funded by the State Department) focusing on refugees in Jordan and Lebanon. TBB works closely with UNHCR, and the Governments of Canada and Australia and has offices in Washington, Melbourne, Toronto, Beirut and Amman.
ABOUT MARY LOUISE COHEN
Mary Louise Cohen, a founding partner of Phillips & Cohen LLP, has represented whistleblowers for more than 25 years in lawsuits brought to remedy fraud against the United States. Her firm has recovered more than $12 billion for state and federal governments in cases filed under the False Claims Act. Specializing in cases involving fraud against the Medicare Program, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013 from Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund, for her work to develop the False Claims Act field of practice. In 2007, Mary Louise joined with African singer Angelique Kidjo to create the Batonga Foundaton which promotes and supports secondary education for girls in Africa. In 2010, together with Dr. Aziza Shad she founded the Aslan Project to improve survival rates for children with cancer in the developing world. Mary Louise also serves as the Chair of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Board for UNICEF USA. Mary Louise graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School and obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Mary Louise was a 2014 Fellow with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The Advanced Leadership Fellowship enhances the ability of highly accomplished leaders to help solve significant social problems. Her work at Harvard culminated in co-founding a new venture, Talent Beyond Boundaries, to open a new private sector driven solution for skilled refugees. Talent Beyond Boundaries recently completed a successful pilot project working in concert with UNHCR and the Governments of Canada and Australia.
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