Yasmin Green

Green was born in Iran. She has one older brother. Her family fled to London in 1984. She grew up in England and played on the UK's national under-16 basketball team until her family moved to Sheffield, where she then played for the Sheffield women’s basketball team.

She received her B.S. in economics from University College London, an M.S. in management from the London School of Economics, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Green went on to work at a consulting firm, Booz Allen Hamilton, where she specialized in oil and gas and traveled throughout Africa and the Middle East.

She then joined Google in 2006 as head of sales strategy and operations for Southern Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Her responsibilities included deal negotiation for syndication partnerships and heading operations for Sub-saharan Africa.

Green was selected by Cohen in 2010, after Google asked him to create an in-house think tank on geopolitical challenges. It was called Google Ideas but would later become Jigsaw.

In 2015, Green and Hadiya Masieh, a British consultant for Jigsaw—in collaboration with Moonshot CVE, Quantum Communications, and the Gen Next Foundation—worked on Redirect Method, an Internet-based intervention that uses targeted advertisements to counter online radicalization. To develop the project, Jigsaw worked with researchers to analyze ISIS recruitment tactics. Then, they interviewed young people who had traveled to join ISIS and either returned or were captured. Based on the findings, Jigsaw and its partners created ads to "pique the interest" of this target audience and redirect them to Jigsaw's YouTube channel, which featured input from "credible voices" such as citizen journalists, imams, and ISIS defectors. In its first year, 300,000 people watched videos created by the Redirect Method.

In 2016, Green and the Jigsaw team were working on uProxy, a browser extension that could be used to get around firewalls in countries with restrictive internet regimes.

By 2017, Green was head of research and development (R&D) at Jigsaw, and the team shifted focus to combatting state-sponsored internet "trolls" who target journalists, activists, and independent press. The tool they created, called Perspective, uses machine learning to review comments and score them based on similarity to comments people had previously labeled as toxic. By February 2017, Jigsaw began offering developers access to an application programming interface (API) for Perspective. Jigsaw had been testing the tool with The New York Times's comment section.

Also in 2017, Cohen and Green, CEO and Director of R&D of Jigsaw, respectively, ranked 18th on Fortune's "40 Under 40" most influential young leaders list. They were both 35 years old at the time. Green was also named one of Fast Company's "Most Creative People in Business".

Green was promoted to CEO of Jigsaw in July 2022.

Green married musician and filmmaker Adam Green on July 4, 2013. They have two daughters together.

Green and her husband co-produced the film Adam Green's Aladdin (2019).