Julie Hanna (born August 5, 1965) is an Egyptian-born technologist, entrepreneur, investor and board director.
She serves as Executive Chair of the Board of Kiva., peer-peer lending pioneer and the world's largest crowdlending marketplace for global entrepreneurs.
She is a board member of Mozilla Corporation and Esalen Institute and an adviser to X (formerly Google X), Alphabet's Moonshot Factory.
She is a Venture Partner at Obvious Ventures.
In May 2015, President Barack Obama named Hanna Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship βto help develop the next generation of entrepreneurs.β
She has been a founding executive of five Silicon Valley technology companies and served as director of strategic technologies at Lotus Development Corporation.
Escaping civil war during Black September in Jordan in 1970, she grew up in America and studied computer science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.