Quyen Tran

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT QUYEN TRAN

Quyen is a Managing Director and Head of Sustainable & Impact Investing (SII) Integration Strategy at Cambridge Associates. Earlier in her career, Quyen worked at CA and advised endowments and foundations on investment strategy and headed the training program for associates globally. For over 50 years, CA has worked with diverse clients including E & Fs, pension plans, corporations, and private investors.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 & 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 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 research, approving and declining research submissions for investment. Quyen is a Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy where her students have earned top recognitions in SII finance competitions. She co-authored the CFA UK Certificate in Impact Investing and serves as a panel expert in collaboration with global leaders in impact investing.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, ethics, and epistemology, and the intersection between Eastern & Western philosophy.