Biography
Quyen Tran is BlackRock's Global Director of Impact Investing. She also serves as Head of Sustainable Investing in Fundamental Equities, Office of the CIO, where she provides research, strategy, and oversight on sustainable investing from an active equities lens. Quyen created the framework and unifying standard for BlackRock's core criteria for impact investing across asset classes and best practices in impact measurement, building consensus across teams. Her expertise on steering committees and work with investment teams directly led to the launch of diverse impact strategies across asset classes firmwide. Her leadership developing new concepts, research publications, the firm's first impact investing annual reports, and her ongoing advisory role supports all impact strategies through their lifecycles.
Committed to advancing the sustainable investing ecosystem, Quyen partners with academia and industry. She is a Professor of the Practice in Impact Investing at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy where her students have earned the top recognitions in impact and sustainable finance competitions every year over three consecutive years.
Most recently, Quyen 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 at the Impact Management Project (IMP), Board Advisor at Bentley University's Sustainable Investment Group, and member of working groups at the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN). She is a frequent speaker at global forums, including those at Harvard, MIT, the United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit, and conferences 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. Her innovation and thought leadership over the last decade influenced industry practices and global standards. Earlier in her career at Cambridge Associates, Quyen advised endowments and foundations on investment strategy.
She draws inspiration from volunteer work which has included teaching, fundraising, and providing operational assistance 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. She studied abroad at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath, India.