Edwin Ou leads Skoll's strategic engagements with aligned funders and manages a variety of key relationships with funded social entrepreneurs, domain experts, policy makers and corporate partners. Edwin develops and structures funding opportunities to drive large-scale change in the focus areas of the foundation. Edwin has also held previous roles of increasing responsibility at Skoll, including Principal.
Prior to working at Skoll, Edwin amassed a diverse set of leadership skills and experience in organizational and business planning, program and personnel management and financial development in the field of social entrepreneurship. Most recently, Edwin led programmatic efforts for the Marine Aquarium Council (MAC), where he managed the spin-offs of MAC’s regional capacity-building programs as newly-formed NGOs in Indonesia and the Philippines. Prior to MAC, Edwin led the business development efforts at Benetech, where he built a team that evaluated and drove the early-stage development of social ventures and fueled the organization with funding and partner resources. Prior to social entrepreneurship, Edwin assumed roles of increasing responsibility in product management for a SoftBank-funded technology startup and as a mergers and acquisitions advisor for an energy investment bank.
Edwin earned his B.A. in Economics at Rice University and M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, where he focused his studies in social entrepreneurship and was a Packard Environment Fellow. He has served on regional boards of three nonprofit organizations: the Red Cross, Surfrider Foundation and Taiwanese American Citizens League.
Arresting Deforestation • Clean Energy • Clean Water • Early Childhood to Primary Education • Economic Opportunity • Education • Environmental Sustainability • Financial Services • Health • Health Delivery • Human Rights • International Justice • Livelihoods • Living Conditions • Ocean Ecosystems • Peace • Peace and Human Rights • Post-Secondary Education • Responsible Supply Chains • Sanitation • Secondary Education • Smallholder Productivity • Standards • Sustainable Markets • Water Management • Women's and Girls' Education • Youth Job Skills
Central America, Central and Southern Asia, Eastern and Southern Africa, Eastern Asia, Europe, Middle East and North Africa, North America, South America, Southeast Asia, West and Central Africa
