Quyen Tran

Quyen Tran is BlackRock's Director of Impact Investing. She also serves as Head of Sustainable Investing in Fundamental Equities, Office of the CIO. Her research creates the standard for BlackRock’s core criteria for impact investing across asset classes and best practices in impact measurement. She provides strategic consultations for investment teams firm-wide and leads the authorship of foundational publications.

Committed to advancing the sustainable investing ecosystem, Quyen partners with academia and industry practitioners. She is a Professor of the Practice in Impact Investing at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and is a member of Harvard Business School’s Alumni for Impact Initiative. She has served as Board Advisor, investment competition judge, and working group member for many industry initiatives, including those by the Impact Management Project (IMP), and Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN). Quyen is a frequent speaker at industry events, including global forums at Harvard, Milken Institute, and the United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit.

At Wellington Management, she served as the firm's Sustainable Investment Strategist. In her role guiding the development of the firm’s first impact strategy in public equities, she researched the philosophical underpinnings against public equities impact investing and developed counterarguments with a new framework for impact with integrity in public equities, setting the standard for the new investment team and the strategy’s impact label.

At Cambridge Associates, Quyen advised endowments and foundations on investment strategy. She earned her MBA from Harvard Business School and her BA, cum laude, in philosophy from Mount Holyoke College where she was awarded the J.M. Warbeke Prize in Philosophy. She studied abroad at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath, India.

Education

• Harvard Business School - Master of Business Administration - MBA
• Mount Holyoke College - Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude, Philosophy