Primary Job Title Advisory Board Member Primary Organization Huecore
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
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Prior to founding the United Nations International Day of Happiness (UNIDOHappiness), and serving as United Nations Adviser, Jayme Illien was the founder and Global Head of dbFX, an online global currency and commodities trading service of Deutsche Bank, which he launched in over 70 countries from 2006-2008.[14][15] Jayme also served as CEO of
Swissquote Bank’s Advanced Currency Markets USA from 2009-2011. Jayme was also managing director at Global Brokerage, Inc from 2002-2006. Global Brokerage Inc was formerly known as FXCM.
In 2014, the European Central Bank named FXCM, the world’s 3rd largest currency broker.
Deutsche Bank was voted #1 in Foreign Exchange by the Euromoney FX poll from 2005-2013.
Jayme is on the Board of Advisors of Huecore, Gross National Happiness emissary program of the Kingdom of Bhutan, and BitWork Elite.[14][21]
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.
Illien conceptualized the idea for an international day of happiness.[27] Illien drafted and lobbied for United Nations Resolution 66/281,[27] which proclaimed March 20th the International Day of Happiness and was adopted by consensus of all 193 member countries in 2012.
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.[38]
