Biography
Quyen Tran is a Professor of the Practice in Impact Investing at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. Her students have earned top recognitions in impact and sustainable finance competitions every year over three consecutive years. At Cambridge Associates, Quyen is a Managing Director serving in the Office of the President as the firm's Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing (SII) Integration Strategy. Earlier in her career, Quyen worked at CA and advised endowments and foundations on investment strategy and headed the training program for investment associates globally.
Previously, Quyen worked at BlackRock as the firm's Global Director of Impact Investing. She created the framework and unifying standard for BlackRock's core criteria for impact investing across asset classes in equities, fixed income and alternatives, and best practices in impact measurement, building consensus across teams. Her leadership developing new concepts, research publications, and the firm's first impact investing annual reports, advanced all impact strategies through their lifecycles. Within BlackRock's Fundamental Equities group, Quyen was Head of Sustainable Investing in the Office of the CIO.
For more than a decade, Quyen's innovation and contributions influenced investment industry practices and global standards. Recently, she co-authored the new CFA UK Impact Investing Exam and served as a panel expert to create the first certificate of its kind in collaboration with global leaders in impact investing. Quyen is a member of Harvard Business School's Alumni for Impact Initiative and has served as Board Advisor or working group member to support many ecosystem building initiatives, including those at the Impact Management Project (IMP), Impact Frontiers, the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), and Bentley University. She is a frequent speaker at global forums, such as conferences at Harvard, MIT, the United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit, and those in Australia, Asia, Europe, and North America.
At Wellington, she served as the firm's Sustainable Investment Strategist. In her role guiding the development of the firm's 1st impact strategy in public equities, she researched the philosophical underpinnings against public equities and developed counterarguments with a new framework for impact with integrity in the asset class, setting the firm's standard.
Quyen draws inspiration from her work in support of children's education and homeless shelters in the Boston area and abroad. Quyen is a recipient of the J.M. Warbeke Prize, the top recognition in the Department of Philosophy at her alma mater, and studied abroad at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath, India.
Previously, Quyen worked at BlackRock as the firm's Global Director of Impact Investing. She created the framework and unifying standard for BlackRock's core criteria for impact investing across asset classes in equities, fixed income and alternatives, and best practices in impact measurement, building consensus across teams. Her leadership developing new concepts, research publications, and the firm's first impact investing annual reports, advanced all impact strategies through their lifecycles. Within BlackRock's Fundamental Equities group, Quyen was Head of Sustainable Investing in the Office of the CIO.
For more than a decade, Quyen's innovation and contributions influenced investment industry practices and global standards. Recently, she co-authored the new CFA UK Impact Investing Exam and served as a panel expert to create the first certificate of its kind in collaboration with global leaders in impact investing. Quyen is a member of Harvard Business School's Alumni for Impact Initiative and has served as Board Advisor or working group member to support many ecosystem building initiatives, including those at the Impact Management Project (IMP), Impact Frontiers, the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), and Bentley University. She is a frequent speaker at global forums, such as conferences at Harvard, MIT, the United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit, and those in Australia, Asia, Europe, and North America.
At Wellington, she served as the firm's Sustainable Investment Strategist. In her role guiding the development of the firm's 1st impact strategy in public equities, she researched the philosophical underpinnings against public equities and developed counterarguments with a new framework for impact with integrity in the asset class, setting the firm's standard.
Quyen draws inspiration from her work in support of children's education and homeless shelters in the Boston area and abroad. Quyen is a recipient of the J.M. Warbeke Prize, the top recognition in the Department of Philosophy at her alma mater, and studied abroad at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath, India.