JA’s Global Reach

Through our six regional operating centers in sub-Saharan Africa, the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, and the United States, more than 700,000 JA volunteers and teachers mentor and inspire over 19 million students in 100+ countries. Click on the tabs below for more information, links to our regional operating centers, and links to our JA member locations.

JA Worldwide is the global governing body for JA, Junior Achievement, Young Enterprise, INJAZ, and dozens of other translations of our iconic name. Locate any of our six regional operating centers by clicking on the tabs. You can also reach an individual JA member location by clicking on the hyperlinks below.

JA Africa is the Regional Operating Center for JA Worldwide in sub-Saharan Africa. Simi Nwogugu serves as CEO, and Janet Thiongo, Africa Marketing Technology Director, Oracle, chairs the JA Africa board. Established in 2011, JA Africa teaches tangible, marketable, and sustainable skills to the rapidly increasing cohort of out-of-school, idle, unemployed, and underemployed youth in Africa. Over the next decade, JA Africa aims to provide one million African youth with information and resources, and to build the self-confidence and self-reliance necessary for Africa’s youth and the subcontinent to succeed.

JA Americas is the Regional Operating Center for JA Worldwide in Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Noël Zemborain serves as President, and Sean Summers, EVP, Mercado Ads, and CMO, Mercado Librea, chairs the board. JA Americas serves youth across a diverse group of countries through a mix of 30+ distinct programs organized around work readiness, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship. These programs target a wide spectrum of young people, from vulnerable, at-risk, and marginalized youth to students enrolled in formal education.

JA Asia Pacific is the Regional Operating Center for JA Worldwide in the Asia Pacific region. Mazier Sabet serves as CEO, and P G Raghuraman, Managing Director, Chief Risk Officer for Growth Markets, Accenture, chairs the JA Asia Pacific board. Along with private and public sector support and on-the-ground delivery of JA programs through 18 JA operations across the region, JA Asia Pacific creates a conversation with youth about the urgency of making themselves employable and contributing to a strong and capable workforce in the region.

JA Europe is the Regional Operating Center for JA Worldwide across Europe. Salvatore Nigro serves as CEO, and Laurence Morvan, Chair, Accenture, chairs the JA Europe board. As the largest European provider of entrepreneurship education programs funded by businesses, institutions, foundations, and individuals, JA Europe brings the public and private sectors together to provide European youth with experiences that promote the skills, understanding, and perspective they need to succeed in a global economy. With an extensive alumni network and the largest number of students in JA Company Program globally, the program is recognized by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry as a “Best Practice in Entrepreneurship Education.”

INJAZ Al-Arab/JA MENA is the Regional Operating Center for JA Worldwide across the Middle East and North Africa. Akef Aqrabawi serves as CEO, and Sheikha Hanadi Bint Nasser Khaled Al Thani, Founder and Chairperson, Amwal, chairs the board. INJAZ provides education and training in entrepreneurial skills throughout the Arab world and teaches programs aimed at developing basic business skills, financial literacy, and soft skills that equip young people to start and run their own businesses and find employment.

Junior Achievement USA is the Regional Operating Center for JA Worldwide across the United States. Jack Harris serves as President and CEO, and Arnold Evans, Co-Head of Emerging Middle Market, JPMorgan Chase & Co., chairs the JA USA board. Focused on empowering young people to own their economic success, JA USA’s experiential programs around work readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy reach more than 4 million students annually and help them see the relevance of education and the value of staying in school.