Andrew Leon Hanna

Andrew Leon Hanna is an award-winning entrepreneur, lawyer, author, and professor. He is co-founder of Mona, a global social venture that highlights and invests in small-business entrepreneurs, including by connecting low-income, women, refugee, and other underserved communities to zero-interest microloans. 

Hanna’s book, 25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs (Cambridge University Press), was named a Financial Times Best Book of the Year and received the Bracken Bower Prize. The book tells the stories of three Syrian women entrepreneurs in the Za’atari camp, and of refugee entrepreneurs around the world.

Hanna is also an adjunct professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he launched the Global Social Entrepreneurship Lab. Previously, he co-created the Chicago Emmy-nominated film "DreamxAmerica" that was recognized on Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas List, was a consultant at McKinsey & Company where he led the launch of the Generation youth employment nonprofit in his hometown of Jacksonville, Florida, and served in the White House and U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. Hanna graduated with honors from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Harvard Law School, and Duke University.