At Cambridge Associates, Quyen is a Managing Director and Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing (SII) Integration. Earlier in her career, Quyen worked at CA and advised endowments and foundations on investment strategy and headed the training program for investment associates globally. Quyen Tran is also a Professor of the Practice in Impact Investing at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy where her students focus on interdisciplinary fields, including human rights, environmental policy, international business, and law.
Quyen is a member of Harvard Business School’s Alumni for Impact Initiative and has contributed to many ecosystem building initiatives, including those at the Impact Management Project (IMP), Impact Frontiers, the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), GSG Impact, and universities around the world. She is a frequent speaker at global forums, including at Harvard, MIT, UN Global Compact Leaders Summit, and conferences in Australia, Asia, Europe, & North America. In her undergraduate studies, Quyen received the J.M. Warbeke Prize, the top recognition in the Department of Philosophy, and studied abroad at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath, India. She focused on the philosophy of language, logic, ethics, epistemology, and the intersection between Eastern and Western philosophy.
Previously, Quyen worked at BlackRock as the firm's Global Director of Impact Investing. In addition, Quyen was Head of Sustainable Investing in the Office of the CIO, Fundamental Equities, where she developed standards and governed the integrity of sustainable and impact research, approving and declining research submissions for investment. At Wellington Management, Quyen was the firm’s Sustainable Investment Strategist and guided the development of the firm’s 1st impact strategy and created the 1st impact investing annual report.
