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Lara Stein

Lara Stein (born November 28, 1966) is a South African businesswoman based in the United States and the founder and CEO of Boma Global. She is also the executive director (ED) of Women’s March Global, managing the Women's March movement and Chapters outside of the United States. Stein also acted as the interim executive director of MIT ReACT, a new institute-wide organization at MIT dedicated to developing a global educational platform for displaced populations and refugees. Ms. Stein was also the managing director (MD) of Singularity University’s global expansion and implementation strategy. Stein currently sits on the board of Equality Now and Lalela, a non-profit organization dedicated to education through the arts in South Africa.

Ms. Stein is the founder and former director of TEDx and of the TED Prize, having overseen the strategy, creation, development and implementation of the TEDx program at TED. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. TED is a nonprofit organization with the mission and slogan, "Ideas Worth Spreading", which was started as a four-day conference in California 30 years ago, by Richard Saul Wurman. Through Stein's leadership, TED expanded from two annual conferences, into a global community of 9,000 TEDx events in 1,200 cities of 133 countries. Most recently Lara was the MD of Global for Singularity University, driving global expansion and strategy. Provided by Wikipedia