Shelby Chen
2024 ALI Fellow

Shelby Chen brings to ALI significant experience leading investments in sustainable businesses. He has been serving as managing partner of Tsing Capital, China’s first investment firm dedicated to environmental impact and ESG investing, and earlier at a Silicon Valley venture capital firm after a decade of leading cross border initiatives in US companies including General Electric and DuPont.

Shelby is a founding trustee of Wings of Music, a nonprofit that has provided classical music training to nearly 4,000 underprivileged primary and secondary school students since 2009. His volunteering and mentoring activities in art education also extend to contemporary art and documentary films. Shelby is also a founding member of the Tsinghua Entrepreneurs and Executives Club (TEEC), an organization founded by Tsinghua University alumni to promote entrepreneurship and innovation amongst Tsinghua alumni.