Quyen Tran

Quyen Tran is professor of the practice in impact investing at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. Her students have earned top recognitions in impact and sustainable finance competitions every year over five consecutive years. At Cambridge Associates, Tran is the firm's head of sustainable and impact investing (SII) integration strategy.

A thought leader in the field of impact investing, Tran has influenced industry practices and global standards. She is a member of Harvard Business School's Alumni for Impact Initiative and has helped many ecosystem building initiatives, including those at the Impact Management Project (IMP), Impact Frontiers, the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), GSG Impact, and universities around the world. She is a frequent speaker at forums, including at Harvard, MIT, the United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit, and conferences in Australia, Asia, Europe, and North America. Tran is a senior advisor at Impact Frontiers, a global standard setter in impact investing. She also co-authored the CFA United Kingdom Impact Investing Certification and continues to serve on the expert panel reviewing exam materials.

Previously at Cambridge Associates, Tran advised endowments and foundations on investment strategy and headed the training program for investment associates globally. Tran also worked at BlackRock as the firm's global director of impact investing, where she created the framework and unifying standard for impact investing across asset classes in both private and public markets, and best practices in impact measurement, building consensus across teams. Her leadership on new concepts, research publications, and creation of the firm's first impact investing annual report, set precedent and provided training for all impact investing teams. In the Fundamental Equities group, Tran was head of sustainable investing in the Office of the CIO where she developed standards and governed the integrity of sustainable and impact investing research, approving and declining research submissions.

During her undergraduate studies, Tran studied abroad in Sarnath, India, and earned the J.M. Warbeke Prize, the top recognition in the Department of Philosophy. She focused on the philosophy of language, ethics, and epistemology.