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 500,000 JA volunteers and teachers mentor and inspire over 15 million students in 100+ countries. Click on the map below for links to the regional operating centers or on the tabs for more information and links to our JA member countries.
JA Worldwide
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 country by clicking on the list below.
JA Africa
JA Africa is the Regional Operating Center for JA Worldwide in sub-Saharan Africa. Simi Nwogugu serves as CEO, and Charles Olumuyiwa Moyela, Senior Communications Consultant, African Development Bank, 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
JA Americas is the Regional Operating Center for JA Worldwide in Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Leo Martellotto serves as President, and Luciano Macagno, Managing Director, Latin America, Caribbean & South Florida, Delta Air Lines, 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
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
JA Europe is the Regional Operating Center for JA Worldwide across Europe. Salvatore Nigro serves as CEO, and Adam Warby, CEO Emeritus, Avanade, 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
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.
JA USA