29 March 2023, Hong Kong SAR
Q&A: introducing Yidan Prize judge Warren Ang
As GDI’s Managing Director for East Asia, Warren devotes his time to finding and supporting scalable projects that change lives. We sat down with...
Warren Ang is the Founder and Managing Director of Global Development Incubator (GDI) in East Asia. As an impact venture builder, he works with foundations and NGOs to design, build, and grow initiatives to achieve large scale impact and systems change in Migration and Livelihoods, Health and Mental Health, Education, Disability Inclusion, and Poverty Alleviation across Greater China, South, and South East Asia. An example is the Migrants Resilience Collaborative, which has enabled 3 million migrant workers to access government-entitled social security cash and non-cash benefits in India, where he and his embedded team has helped scale the program’s impact by 62x over five years.
In addition to venture-building, he is regularly engaged by philanthropic foundation executives and boards for long-range strategic planning, and organizational and leadership development, where his strategy work has directly shaped over ~700m USD in grants.
Prior to GDI, Warren was a strategy consultant in both private and public sectors, and has served in executive positions at NGOs, grant-making funds, and impact investing funds. Warren holds an MBA with Distinction from INSEAD.
