
Chief Executive Officer of Junior Achievement Europe
Caroline Jenner started her career as an entrepreneur. Her interest in entrepreneurship education began in Slovakia in the early 90’s when she helped set up Junior Achievement (JA) there. She became CEO of JA Slovakia in 1993 and subsequently moved into a regional role for JA Central and Eastern Europe. Her work has involved multi-level collaboration with educators, business people and policy makers across Europe. Reducing youth unemployment is at the heart of JA’s mission to create more entrepreneurs and job creators, build work readiness skills and improve financial literacy. She became CEO of JA Europe in 2003. In addition to managing JA’s large network, JA Europe leads EE-HUB.EU and coordinates the Entrepreneurial Skills PassTM.