Team – Lynda Chen
Lynda Chen
Senior Fellow, Advocacy, Asia Pacific
A weekday responsible business innovation champion, weekend advisory board member, life coach, and women mentor, Lynda is a purpose-led business leader with solid experience in responsible business model innovation. Lynda has over 20 years of commercial experience in retail, IT, and consultancy in Asia, across the functions of market entry, new business development, and commercial negotiation advisory.
Lynda currently serves as Senior Fellow, Advocacy, Asia Pacific of Economics of Mutuality Foundation, responsible for developing the Economics of Mutuality movement in the Greater China region that is to champion a breakthrough management innovation designed to empower businesses to adopt a responsible and purpose-centric business model.
Joined in Mars in 2018 as APAC Program Director – Economics of Mutuality, Lynda resides in Hong Kong. Lynda holds an MBA degree from Said Business School at the University of Oxford (UK) and a Master of Letters in International Business from the University of St Andrews (UK). She is also a certified PMP (Project Management Professional) by Project Management Institute (US), and a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach by Co-Active Training Institute (US).
In her spare time, Lynda has a passion for social entrepreneurship and women development. She serves as a mentor and expert at UNLEASH, a global social innovation accelerator, as well as an advisory board member of Mission for Migration Workers, a non-profit organisation in Hong Kong supporting migrant women in crisis and empowering them to regain dignity. She is also a life coach and a mentor of the Women Leaders Mentoring Program by The Women’s Foundation in Hong Kong. Lynda also served as a council member of the Women Advisory Council at Amcham China.
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Asia Economics of Mutuality Forum 24-25 April 2024
Korean and global leaders in business, academia, government, and civil society will gather at Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea, to launch the inaugural Economics of Mutuality Foundation and Hanyang University’s Global Forum on the role of business and investing in society. The event will take place from April 24 to 25, 2024. The two-day event will include addresses by Professor Colin Mayer, former Dean of Oxford University’s Said Business School; Chairman Moon Kook Hyun, President of the New Paradigm Institute and former CEO of Yuhan-Kimberly, and Dr. Jay Jakub, the Executive Director of the Economics of Mutuality Foundation, and co-author of the book, “Completing Capitalism.” The event will highlight the roles of academia, corporations, investors, family offices and entrepreneurs in creating an ecosystem of mutual value co-creation by how companies deploy their capital in society.
Oxford Virtual Executive Education Program 2 May – 20 June 2024
Driving Impact Through Mutual Value Creation, an 8-week online course brought to you by Oxford University’s Saïd Business School and the Economics of Mutuality team, will equip you to walk the talk of Stakeholder Capitalism.
Nordic Economics of Mutuality Forum October 15-16
The first Economics of Mutuality forum to be held in Scandinavia, this event taking place October 15-16, 2024 will be hosted by Brandinnova, the Center for Brand Research at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), Jæren Sparebank, and the Economics of Mutuality Foundation.
How Witnessing an Economy of Greed Led Me to Pursue an Economy of Good
Tony Soh is CEO of the National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre (NVPC) in Singapore. In this interview, he tells us how his experience of the global financial crisis led him to search for better ways of doing business. A graduate of the Oxford Economics of Mutuality Virtual Executive Education Program, he is working to build a movement around corporate purpose in his city