Calvin Chin
Chief Executive Officer, Qifang
Speaker
Calvin Chin is co-founder
and CEO of Qifang, China’s leading online student loan service and the first
Chinese company recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer. He has previously worked in entrepreneurial and leadership roles in education,
banking and technology start ups in New York, Silicon Valley and Shanghai. He
serves as an advisor, lecturer and mentor to students, entrepreneurs and start ups
on strategy, fundraising and social responsibility, social innovation and
social entrepreneurship. A community builder, Calvin helps organize local
events such as TEDxShanghai, Shanghai Barcamp, Social Innovation China and
others. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a Social Innovation
Park Fellow and was named 2009 Chinese Business Leader of the Year by Horasis
and Baker & McKenzie. He has an MBA from TRIUM (NYU, LSE, HEC Paris) and a
BA from Yale University.
Presentation Summary
An integral part of who people are – what they buy,
who they know and how they learn – happens online. Digital identities have
become passports to the new digital commons, where a large part of the world
communicates, shares, shops and plays. Online, an empowering breadth of
different identities is possible. While some people worry about too much of
their private identity being shared online, many others have no digital
identity at all.
Qifang
is an organization based in the People’s Republic of China whose mission is to
enable true global connectivity, to ensure the entire global population can
exist and operate in the online world.
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