Biography
Quyen Tran is a Professor of the Practice in Impact Investing at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Her students have earned top recognitions in impact and sustainable finance competitions every year over four 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 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 1st impact investing annual report, set precedent and provided training for all impact investing teams. In the Fundamental Equities group, Quyen 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.
For more than a decade in impact investing, Quyen 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, UN Global Compact Leaders Summit, and conferences in Australia, Asia, Europe, & North America.
At Wellington, Quyen guided the development of the firm's 1st impact strategy. 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.
In her undergraduate studies, Quyen received the J.M. Warbeke Prize, the top recognition in the Department of Philosophy, and studied abroad at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath, India. She focused on the philosophy of language, logic, ethics, and epistemology, and the intersection between Eastern and Western philosophy.
Previously, Quyen worked at BlackRock as the firm's Global Director of Impact Investing. 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 1st impact investing annual report, set precedent and provided training for all impact investing teams. In the Fundamental Equities group, Quyen 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.
For more than a decade in impact investing, Quyen 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, UN Global Compact Leaders Summit, and conferences in Australia, Asia, Europe, & North America.
At Wellington, Quyen guided the development of the firm's 1st impact strategy. 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.
In her undergraduate studies, Quyen received the J.M. Warbeke Prize, the top recognition in the Department of Philosophy, and studied abroad at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath, India. She focused on the philosophy of language, logic, ethics, and epistemology, and the intersection between Eastern and Western philosophy.