AMAL - Key Persons

Abdul Sami

Job Titles:

Senior Manager Admin & Finance

Benje Williams, MBA '13, has teamed with Kunal Chawla, MA '13, to form Amal Academy in an effort to bridge the gap between the educational system and the needs of the job market in Pakistan.The drive to serve and give back has been embedded in Benje Williams since childhood. The second child of a European American mother and an African American physician father, he soon had eight more siblings all brought into the family from California's adoption system. Williams searched throughout his adolescence for ways to make his own contribution. When his father took him to Kenya while he was an undergraduate business administration major at University of California, Berkeley, he began to find his path.Williams' journey eventually led him back to Kenya, where he worked with one of his best friends to help locals in Nairobi's Mathare slums build and take ownership of an educational information technology resource center designed to economically empower the local community.He also lived in Pakistan for a year, working with Acumen Fund as a Global Fellow. Responsible for hiring and training marketing officers at a social enterprise in Lahore (Pharmagen), he saw firsthand the gap between workforce preparation and business needs. Williams also worked with Acumen as a consultant and intern in India, Kenya, and New York; consulted for nonprofits and banks at Pricewaterhouse Coopers; and worked on development projects for Dalberg Global Development Advisors in South Africa and for TechnoServe in Kenya.