Alen Amini is a management consultant at Boston Consulting Group and the executive director of WiderNet, a nonprofit that provides information access to people lacking reliable internet via its eGranary Digital Library. Alen was a math teacher and vice principal in Arkansas and has experience running a rug business and a food truck. Alen is a Council on Foreign Relations term member and was a Fulbright scholar. Amini is an alumnus of Harvard University (where he was a Center for Public Leadership fellow), earned his MBA at Dartmouth College, and earned a computer science degree from the University of Pennsylvania.