Yu-Shan is a Senior Consultant at TSIC. She has conducted 20+ impact evaluation projects with clients focused on issues such as science, education, climate change, participatory grant-making, community empowerment and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Her clients include Comic Relief, British Council, OVO Foundation and British Science Association. Through her work with social investors in their DEI strategies, she has undertaken a strategic review of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s investment portfolio and developed sector-wide resources with Equality Impact Investing Project. She is interested in people-centred evaluation, impact investing and data visualisation/data-driven storytelling.

Prior to joining TSIC, she worked in management consulting at KPMG, where she advised 10+ social enterprises in sectors ranging from sustainable agriculture to children and young people, on business strategy, corporate partnership and organisational design. She led KPMG Singapore’s first project on social innovation business models, during which she advised 9 social ventures to integrate impact measurement in their business models. She also has experience in start-up accelerator, education charity and sustainability business.

Her experience and education have enabled her to attain a diversified skill set. She holds an MSc in Management with a specialisation in finance at Imperial College London and a BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures with a minor in sustainability development from National Taiwan University.

Before her master’s degree in the UK, she travelled across Southeast and East Asia to understand the social innovation ecosystem by visiting 7 countries and interviewing 26 organisations, including entrepreneurs, incubators/accelerators, and impact investors. In her leisure time, you can find her hiking out in nature or brewing her coffee where the sun shines.