Ankie Ng, Founder & CEO
Ankie is the Founder and CEO of Shifted, Hong Kong’s first OBF advisory firm. Previously, Ankie worked with the Social Investment and Finance Team at the Cabinet Office of the UK Government to develop policy recommendations to grow UK social pension funds. She also worked with the Social Impact Bond (SIB) Fund at Bridges Fund Management, a UK private equity focusing exclusively on sustainable and impact investments in the UK. Ankie previously managed Investor Relations for SOW Asia Foundation, a venture philanthropic fund incubating social enterprises with the support of the Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SIE) Development Fund of the Hong Kong SAR Government.
She has an Equity Research background covering Power and Renewable Energy and was ranked by Bloomberg as the top Hong Kong and China Power Analyst. Ankie is an Organising Committee Member of the Social Enterprise Summit, an annual flagship conference supported by the Hong Kong SAR Government, convening civil society with private, public sectors and academia. Ankie completed the MPP at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford as a Kwok Scholar and recipient of the Oxford and Cambridge Society of Hong Kong scholarship. Ankie holds a BA (Hons) with High Distinction in International Relations and Economics from the University of Toronto. She also received a CFA Certificate in ESG Investing.
Dr Chih Hong Sin, Head of Outcomes
Chih Hoong is the Head of Outcomes at Shifted and leads the design and implementation of outcomes measurement and evaluation frameworks of OBFs. Chih Hoong has 20 years of experience providing commissioning support to a wide range of central and local public sector bodies in the UK and globally. He is a recognised expert in the field of OBF and SIBs: directing evaluations, conducting feasibility studies and OBF/SIB design, advising on procuring OBF/SIBs, and improving performance management. He has worked on OBFs/SIBs in early years, children in care, family interventions, NEET, public health, older people’s services, opiate dependency. He provides independent expert advice and support to a number of the UK Government's Social Impact Bond Funds, such as the Life Chances Fund aimed at helping those people in society who face the most significant barriers to leading happy and productive lives.
Chih Hoong has provided expert advice to public and private stakeholders in Japan since 2014, and played an instrumental role contributing to the emergence of SIBs in Japan, and has been advising a number of other organisations in OBF and SIBs in Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore and Abu Dhabi. Chih Hoong holds a PhD and MA from the University of Oxford, and is also a Fellow of Practice at the Government Outcomes Lab at the University of Oxford.
Sherene Wong, Analyst
Sherene is an Analyst at Shifted supporting evidence-based research. Her responsibilities include supporting qualitative and quantitative analysis of OBF structures, with focus on using data to demonstrate how OBFs could be more effective than traditional funding mechanisms to support service delivery. Sherene holds a BA (Hons) in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge and is a Juris Doctor degree candidate at the University of Hong Kong.
Professor Alex Nicholls, Skoll Centre of Social Entrepreneurship, University of Oxford
Professor Nicholls is the first tenured professor in Social Entrepreneurship appointed at the University of Oxford and the first staff member of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. He published more than ninety papers, working papers, book chapters and articles, and six books to date. Professor Nicholls is the General Editor of the Skoll Working Papers Series and the Editor of the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship.
Professor Nicholls co-authored the book Fair Trade (Sage, 2005) and is the editor of a collection of key papers on social entrepreneurship (Oxford University Press 2006, 2008). He published co-edited volumes, Social Innovation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), Social Finance (Oxford University Press, 2015) and New Frontiers in Social Innovation Research (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) in collaboration with NESTA. Professor Nicholls co-authored research papers The Peterborough Pilot Social Impact Bond (University of Oxford, 2013) and Social Impact Bonds: The Role of Private Capital in Outcome-Based Commissioning, published in the Journal of Social Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Professor Nicholls leads CrESSI, a €3million EU funded research project examining the economic underpinnings of social innovation in the EU. He also holds lectureships at a range of academic institutions and sits on the Board of several social enterprises. Professor Nicholls received his MBA at the University of Oxford, and his PhD, MA, and BA (Hons) in English at King’s College London.
Mark Cheng, Social Innovation Circle
Mark is the founder of Social Innovation Circle, a partnership of social innovators driving new business models for social impact. Mark is recognized as a pioneer in social impact investment. Since 2007, he has helped raise more than USD200 million for social causes in areas including micro-finance, solar energy, healthcare, education and environmental conservation, as well as helping launch two social investment funds.
Mark is the author of the Social Investment Toolkit, an online guide for social entrepreneurs to raise investment. He is a member of the Leadership Group at Ashoka, the global network of the world's leading social entrepreneurs. Mark became the UK Director in 2011, European Director in 2014 and launched the Hong Kong Chapter for Ashoka. Prior to Ashoka, Mark founded Chelwood Capital, a global social investment advisory firm, which he continues to actively manage. Mark is recognized as a pioneer in impact investment, and over the past decade has helped raise over $250mn for social causes in areas including micro-finance, clean energy, healthcare, education and conservation. He is a Director of Emerge Education, a leading incubator for ed/tech start-ups, and a founding member of the ClearlySo Angels network, the UK’s first angel investment network for impact investors. Mark holds a BA (Hons) at University of Oxford.
Timothy Ma, JP, SIE Fund Task Force of the Hong Kong SAR Government
Timothy is a Task Force member of the SIE Fund under the Efficiency Office of the Innovation and Technology Bureau of the Hong Kong SAR Government. He is the Vice-Chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Social Enterprise, Non-Executive Director of the Urban Renewal Authority, Lottery Fund Advisory Committee Member, Social Workers Registration Board member, as well as an Executive Council member of the Hong Kong Housing Society. Timothy is a co-founding member of the Hong Kong Social Entrepreneurship Forum.
Timothy is the founding Executive Director of the Senior Citizen Home Safety Association, the largest social enterprise in Hong Kong. He is the contributing author of the books Bottom of Pyramid and Leadership in Social Enterprise published by the World Economic Forum. Since 2012, Timothy has been advising the World Economic Forum as a member of the Ageing Panel of the Global Agenda Council. He received the "Outstanding Social Entrepreneur of East Asia" award by the SCHWAB Foundation in 2009.
Maggie Loo, Bridges Fund Management
Maggie looks after client relationships for Bridges Fund Management’s platform of funds and has been involved with or led the raising of the firm’s eight most recent funds. These include successive funds in existing strategies as well as the development of new strategies to the Bridges platform. Maggie sits on the BVCA Advisory Group on Impact Investment and on the Working Group on Re-visioning Social Investment as part of the UK National Advisory Board on Impact Investing. Prior to Bridges, Maggie worked at London-based Climate Change Capital, a specialist bank in the environmental markets.
She started her career as a strategy management consultant with McKinsey & Co in New York City. She is a frequent speaker on the topics of sustainable and impact investment and the private markets industry. Maggie studied environmental science and public policy at Harvard University and has an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Dr Ilex Lam, United Nations SDG Innovative Finance
Ilex has over 25 years of experience in investment management and advisory for Asian central banks, sovereign wealth funds and global institutional investors. Ilex is the Chairman of Impact Investing Research Committee of Greater China Alternate Managers Association and iEnterprise Foundation. He is a Senior Advisor to the United Nations Development Programme Sustainable Development Goals (UNDP SDG) Innovative Finance.
Ilex was named “China's Top 10 Most Outstanding and Impactful Entrepreneur in Investment Management Business” in 2011. He is an Organizing Committee Member of the Social Enterprise Summit, a Member of the Non-Profit Scholarship Committee of the Harvard Business School Association of Hong Kong. Ilex is also the Director of CareER, Advisor to the Teen Future Association and Shared Good Value Hong Kong, and the former Chairman of the Social Enterprise Steering Committee of Hong Kong Rehabilitation Power. Ilex received his PhD from UBI, MBA from Warwick Business School and completed the Senior Executive Program in Financial Engineering at Stanford University.
Adam Kybird, Triodos Investment Management
Adam is a Fund Manager at the Triodos Food Transition Europe Fund, an evergreen fund providing long-term capital to companies accelerating the transition to ecologically and socially resilient food and agriculture systems. Adam joined Triodos IM from the Young Foundation, an impact investor and innnovation foundation based in London, where he led the investment work providing seed and pre seed capital to ventures in the education and employment sectors.
Adam previously worked with the SIB Fund at Bridges Fund Management, the first fund in the world dedicated to SIB investments, where he led Bridges’ work in homelessness. Prior to that he worked in KPMG Strategy Group and the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative in Liberia and Indonesia. Adam holds a BA from Pembroke College, University of Oxford in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
Colleen Ebbitt, J.P. Morgan Global Philanthropy
Colleen Ebbitt is a Vice President for J.P. Morgan Global Philanthropy, overseeing philanthropic grants supporting more inclusive economic growth in South Africa, Switzerland, Sweden and Turkey. She has 15 years of experience centred around corporate social responsibility, impact investment, enterprise development, public policy and banking. Prior to J.P. Morgan, Colleen was with the UK Government’s Inclusive Economy Unit where she was a Senior Policy Advisor specializing in innovative social finance and social enterprises.
Colleen was also on temporary assignment as team lead in EU Exit data management as well as EU strategy. She spent 9 years as a Vice President private banker at J.P. Morgan in Switzerland and the United States managing wealth for individuals and family offices. She was a 2015 LGT Impact Ventures Fellow working on strategic growth initiatives for a sub-Saharan African maternal HIV/AIDS charity, mothers2mothers, based in South Africa. Colleen is a frequent public speaker and champion for impact investment and gender empowerment.
Diane Mak, Allianz Global Investors
Diane is Director of Impact Measurement & Management in the Sustainable & Impact Investing team at AllianzGI, overseeing the development and implementation of AllianzGI’s impact framework for the due diligence, measurement and management of investments, and supports the development of impact-focused products. Prior to AllianzGI, Diane was Senior Director of Impact Solutions at Y Analytics, TPG Global’s dedicated impact unit.
Before that Diane was International Director at Social Finance UK, where she structured results-based financing mechanisms in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Middle East, with a focus on the areas of economic inclusion, education and health. Diane started her career in the investment banking division of Citi. Diane is an AsiaGlobal Fellow of the University of Hong Kong’s Asia Global Institute. She holds a Master in Public Administration in International Development from Harvard Kennedy School and a BA in Economics from the University of Cambridge.