Bonnie Chiu

Hong Kong-born Bonnie Chiu is an award-winning social entrepreneur, a gender equality advocate and a leading social impact and impact investing consultant.  She is the Managing Director of The Social Investment Consultancy (TSIC), a global network of consultants specialised in impact assessment and impact investing strategies. Her clients include British Council, Save The Children and Tata Consultancy Services. She has a strong track record in social investment: she authored an Investor Toolkit with a focus on girls and young women funded by DFID, co-founded the Diversity Forum for Inclusive Social Investment, and has been coordinating the Women in Social Finance network. Her latest venture is Humanity Data Systems, leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve humanitarian aid delivery in conflict zones.

She is also the Founder and CEO of award-winning social enterprise Lensational, which equips marginalised women with photography training and digital skills. Since launching in 2013, the organisation – which has expanded to a team of 120 volunteers – has taught photography to 1,000 women across 23 countries, and established partnerships with corporates such as Getty Images, Standard Chartered Bank, and Colgate.

Recognised as a champion for global development and gender equality, she has been invited to speak in 20 countries, featured by major press outlets and is a Forbes Senior Contributor.

Apart from leading organisations, Bonnie also serves strategic governance roles. She has recently been appointed to join the Board of LHA London, which owns 12 hostels across London for young people with a £230m property portfolio and provides £500k in grants every year. She also serves as a Member of the Expert Review Committee of the World Benchmarking Alliance’s Gender Benchmark, a member of Steering Group of Big Society Capital’s Women in Safe Homes Fund and a Non-Executive Director of City to Sea. Previously she served on the Global Alumni Advisory Board of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, her alma mater.

She has received multiple accolades for her work, including Asia21 Young Leader by Asia Society and the Facebook Social Entrepreneurship Award in 2019, Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur in Europe in 2017, the Hong Kong Youth Service Award, and Young Achiever of the Asian Women of Achievement Awards in 2016. The Entrepreneur.com has listed her as one of 30 International Entrepreneurs Really Are Solving the World's Problems. She was also featured as the Ambassador for Sustainable Development Goal 5 in the Lavazza Calendar.

She holds a MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics, and a BBA in Global Business Studies from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, in collaboration with Copenhagen Business School and University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill). She has also been trained in data science and various evaluation methodologies such as Social Return on Investment (SROI) and Qualitative Impact Protocol (QuIP).

A global citizen at heart with roots in Hong Kong and Indonesia, she is now based in London after living in the United States, Singapore, Pakistan, Denmark and Germany.