Nurit Gery, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Younited

Nurit is a social entrepreneur who decided to move from a successful career in the

commercial world to the nonprofit sector. The catalyst was a three-week volunteering stint

with her husband and teenage children at an orphanage in Zimbabwe. This life-changing

experience showed her that she needed to use the skills acquired through her extensive

commercial and marketing experience to invest in a social project with the potential for real, long-term impact within Israel and beyond.

Younited (formerly GHIS) was envisaged in 2017 and, under Nurit’s leadership and vision,

only a year later it opened with a full cohort of local and international students and staff,

ready to compete in quality with international schools worldwide. Partnerships with

relevant government agencies, the International Baccalaureate Organization and a handful

of donors who understood the value of this ‘start-up’, ensured that the foundations for

quality and sustainability were in place. Since then, Nurit’s outreach skills and her ability to

engage and include people has attracted a network of international partners, friends,

volunteers and supporters from around the world.

Nurit’s commercial work experience spanned Israel and the U.S., with an emphasis on

senior management, marketing and sales, entrepreneurship and business development.

Prior to establishing Younited, Nurit worked for 20 years at the pharmaceutical giant, GSK,

where she was a Business Unit Director.

Nurit has an MBA from the University of California at San Francisco and a BA in Biology from

the Technion, Israel.

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