Global Fund for Women announced PeiYao Chen as the next President and CEO. PeiYao Chen is currently the Senior Vice President of Global Operations at Global Fund for Women. She will succeed Latanya Mapp Frett to take over the leadership as President and CEO from the beginning of next year, January 1, 2024.
PeiYao Chen delivered in her statement as “I am thrilled to step into the role of President & CEO of Global Fund for Women and continue our field-leading work to find and fund bold, ambitious, and expansive gender justice movements to create meaningful change. Having co-led Global Fund for Women’s recent shift to a movement-led approach, I am honored and committed to continuing our journey to center movements, promote collective leadership, and shift power.”
PeiYao has extensive ten-year experience in leadership roles at Global Fund for Women, including her role as the Senior Vice President of Global Operations, and as an Interim CEO during Mapp Frett’s sabbatical in 2022. Within the last three years, PeiYao has been an integral part of operationalizing the Global Fund for Women’s innovative new approach to center movements and leading the creation of groundbreaking tools, such as the forthcoming Gender Justice Data Hub to identify and fuel nascent gender justice movements across the world.
PeiYao has had a successful career in the non-profit sector and has served in multiple leadership roles in research, evaluation, grantmaking, and strategic planning. Prior to Global Fund for Women, she was Associate Director of Evaluation at TCC Group, a management consulting firm that provides strategic planning, evaluation, and capacity-building services to foundations and nonprofit organizations. She is a member of the Wellesley Centers for Women Council of Advisors and currently serves on the board of the Support Center for Nonprofit Management. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the Graduate Center, City University of New York.