Board Profile
James Chen
Chairman, Chen Yet-Sen Family Foundation — Hong Kong
Focus Areas
Catalytic philanthropy · Vision & eyecare · Venture philanthropy
Also Leads
Clearly · Wahum Group Holdings
Published
“Clearly: How a 700-Year-Old Invention Can Change the World Forever”
“Fund projects which create real-world change, privatize failure, and socialize success.”
James Chen is a Hong Kong-based philanthropist. As a leading proponent of catalytic philanthropy, he has dedicated the last twenty years to funding projects which create real-world change, privatize failure, and socialize success.
This includes tackling one of the world’s most significant unmet needs: poor vision. James is the Founder of Clearly, a global campaign that aims to bring clear vision to the 2.5 billion people who are denied it. He is the author of “Clearly: How a 700-Year-Old Invention Can Change the World Forever,” which explains his mission to help the whole world see clearly and identifies the barriers to delivering universal access to glasses.
James is Chairman of his family’s enterprise, Wahum Group Holdings, and an early adopter of venture philanthropy through the Chen Yet-Sen Family Foundation.