Mohammad Kilany – Team Leader, Software Development

A Nokia Youth Action Net Fellow and a 2009 Synergos Fellow, Mohammad combines his IT skills with a passion for social change as leader of Souktel’s software development team. Before helping found Souktel, Mohammad worked as a network administrator at the Palestine Telecommunications Company and volunteered actively in the Palestinian National Youth Corps. Since his first visit to the US as a Palestinian Youth Ambassador in 2007, Mohammad has frequently represented the country’s youth and its growing IT sector; recent speaking engagements included talks at the US State Department in Washington, DC and the Carnegie Mellon ICT for Development conference in Qatar. Mohammad holds a degree in Computer Science from the Arab-American University of Jenin in Palestine.

Read Mohammad’s Synergos Profile here.