Jayme Illien

Jayme Illien
Founder of Happytalism, Founder of International Day of Happiness, and United Nations Special Adviser Jayme Illien
Born Adam (named by Saint Mother Teresa at orphanage)
Calcutta, India
Nationality American
Occupation Founder of Happytalism, Founder of International Day of Happiness
Known for Founder of Happytalism, and International Day of Happiness

Jayme Illien (born September 8, 1980) is a global business executive, statesman, activist, philanthropist, and prominent United Nations special advisor.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Jayme is currently lead strategic advisor at Blockspeed.com, an institutional cryptocurrency and digital asset investment strategy and research firm, which specializes in analyzing underlying value of digital assets, initial coin offering research, and ongoing institutional token coverage.[7][8] Jayme also currently represents an international network of the world’s leading economists, security experts, and senior policy advisors, including seventeen nobel economists, several former heads of state, former US cabinet members, and Ministers of Finance, Trade, Economy, and Defense, at the United Nations, on a range of topics, including reform of the international monetary and financial system, and happiness and wellbeing defining a new economic paradigm to advance the global economy and human development.[9][10][11][12][13]

Jayme is one of the true originalists in the movement to democratize access to global financial markets, and build a more open and inclusive global economy and an international financial system that works for all.[14] In addition to building and leading three financial companies which disrupted the global foreign exchange market with new technology to become some of the largest currency trading operations in the world,[14][15] Jayme is most well known for conceptualizing and founding the United Nations International Day of Happiness (UNIDOHappiness),[16][17][18][19] with the support of all 193 Member States of the United Nations and former Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki moon.

Jayme is also Chairman at UNIDOHappiness, the UN initiative to implement UN resolution 66 281, and Chairman and CEO at Illien Global Public Benefit Corporation, an international human development company founded in 1980, which works with government, the private sector, the nonprofit sector, and academia, among other stakeholders, to advance the human condition and world happiness.[20][21][22][23][24][25]

In 2011, Illien brought the idea and concept for creating a new global holiday, the International Day of Happiness, to the United Nations. Jayme Illien led a multi year campaign approaching senior UN officials, and successfully convincing then UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon, and all 193 UN member states to join a global coalition support the idea of creating the new global holiday, and a new official UN sanctioned international calendar day of observance and awareness known worldwide as the International Day of Happiness.[26][27][28][29]

Illien authored the new UN resolution 66/281 International Day of Happiness which, was ultimately adopted by all 193 UN Member states on June 28, 2012, thereby establishing March 20 as the International Day of Happiness in perpetuity. Illien chose March 20 for its significance as the March equinox, a universal phenomenon felt simultaneously by all of humankind, and marking the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere, a period of renewal and new beginnings for all.[30]

Early life

Mother Teresa orphan, international adoption, child refugees, early humanitarian work

Jayme Illien was born in Kolkata, India, abandoned on the roadside as an infant, and taken to Mother Teresa’s International Mission of Hope orphanage.[31][32][33] Jayme was later adopted by a single, white, forty-five year old American woman, who founded Illien Adoptions International.[34] From an early age, Jayme grew up traveling with his adoptive mother, and later alone, to orphanages around the world as part of the family’s non profit humanitarian work with orphans, refugees, and displaced children, women, and families.[35]

Over more than three decades of working on the front lines of international adoption and with child refugees fleeing war, and living in poverty, Jayme was exposed first hand to their plight, and continuously theorized about the root causes of, and solutions to, the misery of children he calls his brothers and sisters, and “children like me”, who lose their parents or family due to poverty, war, famine, and related causes. Jayme has felt a lifelong sense of responsibility "to do something about it”, and a "responsibility to do something with what I've been given”.[35][34]

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

From early childhood into his teenage years, Jayme Illien became a vocal advocate for child human rights, and international adoption policy that protects children, promotes their health, happiness, and wellbeing, and seeks to build and preserve families across borders through foster care and international adoption, and through humanitarian projects that target the root causes with sustainable and systemic based solutions. Illien was also responsible for working with national and international regulators on new structures, rules, and policies to implement the UN convention on the Rights of the Child on international adoption, child and human rights.[35]

US Department of State, diplomacy, and governmental advocacy

Jayme Illien traveled as a representative and diplomat on behalf of Illien adoptions international, to ministries of foreign governments and nations where Illien had projects and operations around the world. Jayme Illien served as senior representative, advisor, and diplomat representing Illien adoptions working with the United States Department of State on international adoption, immigration, child trafficking, and child human rights issues.[35]

Education

Jayme attended at Atlanta International School on scholarship for grade school joining as one of the first students when AIS was founded in 1984. In 1993, when Jayme was 14, his family experienced a financial crisis associated with increasing costs of providing adoption services to orphaned, abandoned, and foster children combined with a decrease in charitable contributions. Consequently, Jayme and his family moved to Memphis, Tennessee, which offered a lower cost of living. To make ends meet, Jayme’s mother worked the graveyard shift as a nurse, while managing the non profit adoption agency during daytime from a home office.[36]

At 14, Jayme applied for and was granted a hardship license by the State of Tennessee, and a work permit enabling him to earn income to support his education, his family and their humanitarian work, and to drive himself, his siblings, and foster children living in the home to school. With the support of financial aid and scholarships, Jayme was able to attend Memphis University School, an all boys prep school in Tennessee where he graduated in 1998.[37]

Jayme attended Tufts University in Medford Massachusetts from 1998-2002 where he graduated with a Bachelors degree in Economics and International Relations, and a minor in entrepreneurial leadership.[38]

At Tufts, Jayme was accepted into the Institute for Global Leadership EPIIC program, for which he studied post soviet privatization in Russia and dissolution of the Soviet Union, and completed critical research on the Yugoslav wars and the Bosnian genocide. Jayme attended Sciences Po for a one year degree program at the same time as French President Emmanuel Macron. During this period Jayme worked at Goldman Sachs Asset Management (formerly known as Archon Group, a 100% owned subsidiary of Goldman Sachs) managing a global merger and acquisitions project between France, Italy, Japan, and USA.[39]

Career

Prior to founding the United Nations International Day of Happiness (UNIDOHappiness), and serving as United Nations Adviser, Jayme Illien was the founder, CEO, and Global Head of dbFX, an online global digital currency and commodities trading service of Deutsche Bank, which he launched in over 180 countries across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, South America, and North America from 2006-2008.[40][41] Jayme also served as CEO of Swissquote Bank’s Advanced Currency Markets USA from 2009-2011. Jayme was also senior managing director at from FXCM from 2002-2006.[42] Jayme Illien played an integral role, working alongside current FXCM CEO Brendan Callan, and FXCM founder and former CEO Drew Niv, in leading FXCM's growth from a start up into one of the largest digital currency, technology driven, online investment, trading, and education firms in the world dedicated to promoting financial inclusion, and democratizing access to global financial market for all.[43]

In 2014, the European Central Bank named FXCM, the world’s 3rd largest currency broker.[44][45] FXCM completes approximately $200 billion to $250 billion in monthly transactions worldwide, and $2 trillion to $4 trillion a year.[46][47]

Deutsche Bank was voted #1 in Foreign Exchange by the Euromoney FX poll from 2005-2013.[48][49]

Jayme Illien is lead advisory board member for HueCore, an artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, internet of things, automotive technology company.[50] Illien serves on Huecore's advisory board alongside lead investor billionaire J Christopher Burch, CEO of private equity / venture capital firm Burch Creative Capital[51] and co founder of fashion brand Tory Burch;[52] and Lex Fenwick former CEO of Bloomberg (appointed by founder Michael Bloomberg, former Mayor of New York, when he ran in 2001), and former CEO of Dow Jones and Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, Barrons, Marketwatch, Smartmoney, Factiva and board member at the MoMA PS1.[53][54][55]

Gross National Happiness emmissary program of the Kingdom of Bhutan, and BitWork Elite.[40][56]

In his political, diplomatic, and philanthropic life, Jayme has worked as an adviser and representative at the United Nations on several international policy issues such as Sustainable Economic Development, Happiness and Well-being: Defining a New Economic Paradigm, Poverty, Disarmament, Peacekeeping and International Security.[57][58][59][40][60][16][61]

Illien conceptualized the idea for an international day of happiness.[62] Illien drafted and lobbied for United Nations Resolution 66/281,[62] which proclaimed March 20 the International Day of Happiness, and was adopted by consensus of all 193 member countries in 2012.[63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72]

In 2011, Jayme Illien became Chairman and CEO of Illien Global Public Benefit Corporation, which was originally founded in 1980 by his mother Anna Belle Illien as Illien Adoptions International, Inc, a not for profit international adoption and child social welfare organization. The organization aimed to help abandoned or orphaned children by permanently allocating them families and homes.[73]

UN meeting on happiness

On April 2012, the United Nations hosted its first High Level Meeting on Happiness and Wellbeing: Defining a New Economic Paradigm. The meeting was attended by Heads of State and High Level UN Delegates. At the meeting, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon stated, "Gross National Product has long been the yardstick by which economies and politicians have been measured. Yet it fails to take into account the social and environmental costs of so-called progress. We need a new economic paradigm that recognizes the parity between the three pillars of sustainable development. Social, economic and environmental well-being are indivisible. Together they define Gross Global Happiness."[74][75][76][77][78][79][74]

Jayme Illien recommended to then United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon[80] to reserve March 20 as an entire day dedicated to happiness,[81][82] therefore, creating a basis for the resolution.[60][83][84][85][86][70][80][87]

Pharrell Williams's hit Happy was inspired from Illien's founding of the International Day of Happiness and was produced when the singer partnered with the UN.[88][89][90][91][92][93][94][62] The song received controversial coverage when six Irani kids were arrested for making a video for the International Day of Happiness.[95][96]

See also

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