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Cindy Chen

Portfolio Director, King Philanthropies

Biography

Cindy is the Portfolio Director at King Philanthropies, where she oversees strategic grantmaking and key partnerships. She brings to this position more than a decade of experience in the corporate and nonprofit sectors, and her areas of expertise include strategy planning, program design, business model design, impact assessment, and investment due diligence. Before joining King Philanthropies, Cindy served as a strategic advisor to high-impact social entrepreneurs and philanthropic institutions. Previously, she was a Director at the Skoll Foundation, where she focused on improving the foundation’s resource and investment decisions through deep analysis of portfolio performance and by tracking ecosystem inflection points. Cindy holds a B.S. in management science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

Regional Focus

Central and Southern Asia, Eastern and Southern Africa, West and Central Africa

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Cindy Chen - King Philanthropies, May 12, 2016
This is part of a series of articles about the 2016 Skoll World Forum, which took place April 13-15 in Oxford, England. In recent years, wealth inequality has been passionately…
Cindy Chen - King Philanthropies, February 13, 2016
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