Emal Dusst

Head of ETS Capital | Fmr. Board @ Coursera (NYSE:COUR)| Council on Foreign Relations | YPO Member

📍 Washington, District of Columbia, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2025
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Board Member
Sep 2025
Leverage is a global education > jobs talent mobility platform. It offers universities & counsellors an AI product-suite that helps them with student recruitment. Alongside, it also offers a 360-degree stack to students across financing, remittance, part-time housing & early-career opportunities. It now spans 27 countries across 60+ offices, operating multiple products / brands: Leverage Edu, Univalley.ai, Fly Finance, Fly Homes, Leverage Careers, SO-360. An obsession with making every single customer interaction an 11/10 is the core DNA of our 1000+ team spread across all continents, so if we ever fall short, please do write to us! For more information, visit www.leverage.biz
Board Member
Oct 2024
The Vericant Communication Assessment is the most widely-required video interview and spoken English assessment in North America. It includes: •A face-to-face video interview with the applicant, where you can judge the applicants communication skills. •A comprehensive assessment of the applicant’s spoken English ability as demonstrated during the interview. •A proctored and assessed writing sample. •Secured interview with multistep ID verification of the applicant. High-quality, in-person interviews make you feel as if youre in the room with the applicant, while probing questions reveal each applicants academic and personal fit for your institution. Vericant guarantees there are no coaches behind the scenes, applicants are not given the questions beforehand, and questions are chosen randomly. The information you get from us is factual and is an accurate representation of each applicant’s abilities. Learn more about gaining a raw look at your applicants and how you can gain control of your growing Chinese applicant pool by visiting www.vericant.com.
Board Member
Oct 2024
Suraasa is an international organization that helps teachers achieve greater professional and financial growth in their careers. We equip teachers with the pedagogical skills and resources that enable them to experience career satisfaction and continuous advancement. Explore Suraasa for more information.
Board Member
2017
A non-profit empowering the next generation of tech leaders by providing them with the skills and mindset to thrive in the digital economy.
Board Member
2017
Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. Today, it is one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with 197 million registered learners as of December 31, 2025. Coursera partners with over 375 leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, and degrees. Coursera’s platform innovations — including generative AI-powered features like Coach, Role Play, and Course Builder, and role-based solutions like Skills Tracks — enable instructors, partners, and companies to deliver scalable, personalized, and verified learning. Institutions worldwide rely on Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, students, and citizens in high-demand fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business, while learners globally turn to Coursera to master the skills they need to advance their careers. Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp.
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2025
Board Member
Sep 2025
Orijin is transforming how correctional jurisdictions prepare incarcerated populations for employment. The Orijin platform delivers comprehensive learning and workforce development experiences, supported by motivational tools for learners and actionable insights for correctional staff. Orijin partners with jurisdictions and agencies including Massachusetts Department of Correction, Tennessee Department of Labor, and North Carolina Division of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to accelerate employability, ensuring that learning investments translate to reentry successes. As a public benefit corporation, Orijin is on a mission to prepare every justice-impacted individual for sustainable employment and change corrections for good. For more information, visit orijin.works.
Board Member
Sep 2025
Leverage is a global education > jobs talent mobility platform. It offers universities & counsellors an AI product-suite that helps them with student recruitment. Alongside, it also offers a 360-degree stack to students across financing, remittance, part-time housing & early-career opportunities. It now spans 27 countries across 60+ offices, operating multiple products / brands: Leverage Edu, Univalley.ai, Fly Finance, Fly Homes, Leverage Careers, SO-360. An obsession with making every single customer interaction an 11/10 is the core DNA of our 1000+ team spread across all continents, so if we ever fall short, please do write to us! For more information, visit www.leverage.biz
2024
Board Member
Oct 2024
The Vericant Communication Assessment is the most widely-required video interview and spoken English assessment in North America. It includes: •A face-to-face video interview with the applicant, where you can judge the applicants communication skills. •A comprehensive assessment of the applicant’s spoken English ability as demonstrated during the interview. •A proctored and assessed writing sample. •Secured interview with multistep ID verification of the applicant. High-quality, in-person interviews make you feel as if youre in the room with the applicant, while probing questions reveal each applicants academic and personal fit for your institution. Vericant guarantees there are no coaches behind the scenes, applicants are not given the questions beforehand, and questions are chosen randomly. The information you get from us is factual and is an accurate representation of each applicant’s abilities. Learn more about gaining a raw look at your applicants and how you can gain control of your growing Chinese applicant pool by visiting www.vericant.com.
Board Member
Oct 2024
Suraasa is an international organization that helps teachers achieve greater professional and financial growth in their careers. We equip teachers with the pedagogical skills and resources that enable them to experience career satisfaction and continuous advancement. Explore Suraasa for more information.
Board Member
Sep 2024
Kira Talent is the world’s only holistic admissions solution designed for higher education. Kira transforms the admissions process by combining on-demand, timed video and timed written assessments with existing admissions requirements. Kira works with over 600 programs worldwide to build applicant-first assessments that identify and select their best-fit students. Kira enhances the existing application by integrating effective, efficient, and fair digital assessments into your school’s existing systems to create a more streamlined admissions process. Working at Kira: At Kira, we are solving complex problems in higher education by building elegant products that are easy to use. We’re a lean, highly-collaborative team who take on big challenges and work quickly and cross-functionally to achieve success for schools and applicants. If you’re an entrepreneurial, startup type, you’re gonna love it here. At Kira, we strive to remain an open, honest, and fun place to work that is shaped by the people within it. We are committed to building and supporting talent that reflects our diverse culture.
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