Kenneth Chin is a Principal and co-Head of Asia, Fund of Funds at responsAbility Investments AG. He is a core member responsible for managing the Swiss Investment Fund for Emerging Markets (“SIFEM”) mandate. He has over seventeen years of experience in emerging and frontier markets through investments in emerging Asia, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to joining responsAbility Mr. Chin was Director at Avanz Capital, an emerging markets private equity asset management firm, where he focused on sourcing, assessing, recommending, and negotiating fund and direct co-investment opportunities across all regions as well as overseeing existing portfolio investments. During his ten-year tenure at Avanz Capital, he played an active role in nearly 30 deals including primary PE funds, secondary PE funds and direct co-investments.

Previously Mr. Chin was in the Global Funds Group at the International Finance Corporation (“IFC”). Mr. Chin was relocated to India where he assisted in establishing IFC’s private equity funds practice, implemented IFC’s first initiative to outsource its business processes, managed an investment portfolio valued at $369 million, and developed new business opportunities in growth equity, climate impact and microfinance. He also identified and created standard indicators, targets, and benchmarks used by IFC’s Development Outcome Tracking System (DOTS) to measure and assess the impact of its private equity fund investments. Prior to joining the Global Funds Group, he worked on revising the corporate environment and social Policy and Performance Standards used by IFC and the Equator Principles for financial institutions.

Mr. Chin holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BA in Economics and Finance from Rutgers University.