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 social impact consultancy working across Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America. Since joining in 2014, she has scaled TSIC internationally, to over 60 staff globally. TSIC has worked with over 400 clients, including The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, British Council and UNICEF.

She is a serial social entrepreneur: having founded women’s empowerment social enterprise Lensational, Diversity Forum for Inclusive Social Investment, Humanity Data Systems and Pathway Fund, a new impact investment wholesaler focused on racial equity. She is also a Senior Advisor at Social Value International.

Recognised as a champion for global development and gender equality, she has been invited to speak in 20 countries including two TEDx talks, featured by major press outlets, podcasts and books. Previously, she was Forbes Senior Contributor writing on gender and diversity; and has held strategic governance positions, including Trustee at 360 Giving, Member of the Blended Finance Investment Committee at Access – Foundation for Social Investment, and Member of the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Global Alumni Advisory Board.

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; and also in award-winning children’s book series, Rebel Girls.

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.