Jacob Emont

Robertson Fellow at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School and Advisor to the Tunisia Inclusive Labor Institute

Jacob Emont is a Robertson Fellow at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School and Advisor to the Tunisia Inclusive Labor Institute. He was previously Program Director at the Global Fairness Initiative, where he worked to empower the world’s working poor through programming and research on the informal economy, workforce readiness, and combatting forced and child labor in supply chains. Jacob completed a Fulbright fellowship at Nevşehir Haji Bektaş Veli Universitesi in central Turkey, and has also worked to support diversity efforts at the Case Foundation, equality in entrepreneurship at Springboard Enterprises, and international education at Space Camp Turkey.