Julienne Oyler

Julienne founded African Entrepreneur Collective in 2012, after living and working in more than 20 countries in Africa, and being inspired by the incredible potential for young people across the Continent to solve their own problems, if only provided the tools to do so. Since founding AEC, Julienne has led the strategy and fundraising efforts to expand across Rwanda and into Kenya, building AEC’s in-house loan fund, developing SME programming, and most importantly, developing private sector approaches to support refugee livelihoods through entrepreneurship. In the next 3 years, AEC will be in 5 countries, supporting more than 35,000 entrepreneurs.

Prior to AEC, Julienne served as the Director of Development and Communications at College Track, a national after-school program in the US, and has held leadership and strategic consulting positions at a number of organizations including African Leadership Academy, Capital Partners for Education, and Yale University. Julienne is a 2015 Echoing Green Fellow for Social Enterprise, and she has a BA in African History from Georgetown University and an MBA from Yale School of Management.