Ron Bruder is an American entrepreneur and advocate for increased youth employment opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa. He is the founder of Education for Employment (EFE), a network of affiliated locally-run nonprofits which create public-private partnerships with employers to train youth in technical and soft skills and place them in jobs. The network has local affiliates in Jordan, Palestine, Yemen, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia and capacity-building support organizations in the United States and Spain. EFE has trained over 123,000 youth (58% women). In 2011 Bruder was named on the TIME 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world. He lives in Westchester County, New York.