Edward Yee works in the intersection of finance and social impact to drive social change. He has played leadership roles in various non-profits, founded a profitable start-up, and is running his current venture, Givfunds. Inspired by his visits to over three hundred social enterprises globally, Edward co-founded Givfunds to help neglected social enterprises gain access to catalytic capital at scale. He has since worked at various levels of the global impact investing sector, from systems change at the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment to consulting for global impact finance organisations and performing academic research on the sector in Oxford. Edward is a Rhodes Scholar, Kairos Society Global Fellow, and a Diana Award Recipient. In his free time, Edward enjoys sticking his nose in a book and collecting stories from around the world. He has stood on Bangladeshi train tops, hacked in Silicon Valley, and travelled 16 days in a third-class Indian train.
