   Career Jamme has been included in both the 2019 and 2020  Powerlist, a listing of the 100 most influential people in the UK of African/African-Caribbean descent . Early life There have been conflicting accounts from Jamme with regards to her early life. In early interviews, including with CNN in 2012, Jamme stated that she had a turbulent childhood and was born in Senegal to privileged parents with her mother being an aristocrat; and after the death of her father in 1992 moved to France where she worked in restaurants and cleaning jobs to fund her studies in marketing and communication. In a 2014 interview with Radio France Internationale, Jamme discussed coming from a wealthy family living comfortably in Dakar before moving to France where she worked a number of odd jobs to independently finance her Master in Marketing and Communication. According to the same interview, she then moved to the UK to improve her English, and obtained an MBA at the University of Surrey, before being hired by Citibank and then by JP Morgan and Lloyds Bank, before spending time in management at software manufacturers Oracle and Microsoft.%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% In other publications, Jamme has stated that she experienced considerable hardship during her childhood; she was abandoned by her mother, did not receive formal education, and at the age of 11 years old was raped by her Quranic teacher in Senegal. Jamme also said that at the age of 13, she was trafficked to France where she spent time homeless and in prostitution, with some interviews saying at 16 years old that she was taken by the Police to a refugee camp and at 18 years old moved to the United Kingdom, other reports say she moved to the UK at 16, and there she began to educate herself and taught herself computer programming. During a 2019 interview with O Globo in Brazil, Jamme said that she was abandoned by her mother at 6 years old and moved to Guildford, Surrey, UK at 16 years old where she taught herself to read and write in a local library and worked as a cleaner. In a 2019 interview, Italian newspaper La Repubblica raised these discrepancies, however Jamme terminated the interview and did not comment. La Repubblica commented that she had a personal history that is "as romantic as it is dubious" .
Early life There have been conflicting accounts from Jamme with regards to her early life. In early interviews, including with CNN in 2012, Jamme stated that she had a turbulent childhood and was born in Senegal to privileged parents with her mother being an aristocrat; and after the death of her father in 1992 moved to France where she worked in restaurants and cleaning jobs to fund her studies in marketing and communication. In a 2014 interview with Radio France Internationale, Jamme discussed coming from a wealthy family living comfortably in Dakar before moving to France where she worked a number of odd jobs to independently finance her Master in Marketing and Communication. According to the same interview, she then moved to the UK to improve her English, and obtained an MBA at the University of Surrey, before being hired by Citibank and then by JP Morgan and Lloyds Bank, before spending time in management at software manufacturers Oracle and Microsoft. In other publications, Jamme has stated that she experienced considerable hardship during her childhood; she was abandoned by her mother, did not receive formal education, and at the age of 11 years old was raped by her Quranic teacher in Senegal. Jamme also said that at the age of 13, she was trafficked to France where she spent time homeless and in prostitution, with some interviews saying at 16 years old that she was taken by the Police to a refugee camp and at 18 years old moved to the United Kingdom, other reports say she moved to the UK at 16, and there she began to educate herself and taught herself computer programming. During a 2019 interview with O Globo in Brazil, Jamme said that she was abandoned by her mother at 6 years old and moved to Guildford, Surrey, UK at 16 years old where she taught herself to read and write in a local library and worked as a cleaner. In a 2019 interview, Italian newspaper La Repubblica raised these discrepancies, however Jamme terminated the interview and did not comment. La Repubblica commented that she had a personal history that is "as romantic as it is dubious". Career Jamme has been included in the 2019 , 2020 , and 2021 editions of the Powerlist, a listing of the 100 most influential people in the UK of African/African-Caribbean descent %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% .
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Early life There have been conflicting accounts from Jamme with regards to her early life. In early interviews, including with CNN in 2012, Jamme stated that she had a turbulent childhood and was born in Senegal to privileged parents with her mother being an aristocrat; and after the death of her father in 1992 moved to France where she worked in restaurants and cleaning jobs to fund her studies in marketing and communication. In a 2014 interview with Radio France Internationale, Jamme discussed coming from a wealthy family living comfortably in Dakar before moving to France where she worked a number of odd jobs to independently finance her Master in Marketing and Communication. According to the same interview, she then moved to the UK to improve her English, and obtained an MBA at the University of Surrey, before being hired by Citibank and then by JP Morgan and Lloyds Bank, before spending time in management at software manufacturers Oracle and Microsoft.
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In other publications, Jamme has stated that she experienced considerable hardship during her childhood; she was abandoned by her mother, did not receive formal education, and at the age of 11 years old was raped by her Quranic teacher in Senegal. Jamme also said that at the age of 13, she was trafficked to France where she spent time homeless and in prostitution, with some interviews saying at 16 years old that she was taken by the Police to a refugee camp and at 18 years old moved to the United Kingdom, other reports say she moved to the UK at 16, and there she began to educate herself and taught herself computer programming. During a 2019 interview with O Globo in Brazil, Jamme said that she was abandoned by her mother at 6 years old and moved to Guildford, Surrey, UK at 16 years old where she taught herself to read and write in a local library and worked as a cleaner.
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In a 2019 interview, Italian newspaper La Repubblica raised these discrepancies, however Jamme terminated the interview and did not comment. La Repubblica commented that she had a personal history that is "as romantic as it is dubious".
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Early life There have been conflicting accounts from Jamme with regards to her early life. In early interviews, including with CNN in 2012, Jamme stated that she had a turbulent childhood and was born in Senegal to privileged parents with her mother being an aristocrat; and after the death of her father in 1992 moved to France where she worked in restaurants and cleaning jobs to fund her studies in marketing and communication. In a 2014 interview with Radio France Internationale, Jamme discussed coming from a wealthy family living comfortably in Dakar before moving to France where she worked a number of odd jobs to independently finance her Master in Marketing and Communication. According to the same interview, she then moved to the UK to improve her English, and obtained an MBA at the University of Surrey, before being hired by Citibank and then by JP Morgan and Lloyds Bank, before spending time in management at software manufacturers Oracle and Microsoft.
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In other publications, Jamme has stated that she experienced considerable hardship during her childhood; she was abandoned by her mother, did not receive formal education, and at the age of 11 years old was raped by her Quranic teacher in Senegal. Jamme also said that at the age of 13, she was trafficked to France where she spent time homeless and in prostitution, with some interviews saying at 16 years old that she was taken by the Police to a refugee camp and at 18 years old moved to the United Kingdom, other reports say she moved to the UK at 16, and there she began to educate herself and taught herself computer programming. During a 2019 interview with O Globo in Brazil, Jamme said that she was abandoned by her mother at 6 years old and moved to Guildford, Surrey, UK at 16 years old where she taught herself to read and write in a local library and worked as a cleaner.
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In a 2019 interview, Italian newspaper La Repubblica raised these discrepancies, however Jamme terminated the interview and did not comment. La Repubblica commented that she had a personal history that is "as romantic as it is dubious"