Minjia Yang

Minjia Yang is the Vice President of Investing for Health at the International WELL Building Institute, where she leads efforts to elevate the meaning of health, well-being and equity to organizations and communities at scale. Minjia brings her interdisciplinary background in law, economics, finance and global markets to partnership building, corporate strategy, sustainable finance, product development and policy advocacy to put the “H” – humanity and health – in environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives.

Prior to joining IWBI, Minjia worked with Delos, a wellness technology company, to establish more than 10 subsidiaries and joint ventures in Asia, as well as the first venture capital fund focusing on wellness technology for the built environment. Minjia has extensive professional experience across public, private and nonprofit sectors in Asia, Africa and North America. She worked with Inter-American Development Bank, Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, social enterprises in Lesotho, nonprofit organizations in Haiti, the Malaysia Prime Minister’s Office and consulting firms in Asia. The projects she led and consulted on range from financial inclusion, healthcare, and education to environmental protection and sustainable technology for underserved communities.

Minjia holds a Bachelor of Law degree from Sun Yat-sen University in China. During law school, she served as the captain of her university’s parliamentary debate team and was elected as the Chinese youth representative to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP). Minjia was also elected as a W. T. Chan Fellow to participate in the Social Entrepreneurship Program at the University of California Los Angeles and received a Master of Public Administration degree with a concentration in economics and finance from Cornell University.