Co-founder and CEO of Leping Foundation
Publisher & Editor in Chief of Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) China

After selling his Internet company in 2002, Jaff co-founded the Leping Foundation and has incubated five social enterprises over the past 10 years. As a social entrepreneur, social innovation catalyst and market maker, Jaff introduced SVP - a venture philanthropy model - to China in 2013,  with the goal of fostering innovative ways to strengthen the financial markets, energize the talent market, and enhance thought leadership in the field of social innovation. In 2016, Jaff became the Chinese publisher of Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR). Jaff was honored as the Youth Leader of the Year by Southern People Weekly Magazine in 2014. And he was honored as “Social Innovation Thought Leader”by SCHWAB Foundation in 2020.

Mr. Shen holds a BA in Oriental Studies and a law degree from Peking University.

Co-director of B-Corp China
Director of Tsinghua Business Accelerator & Head of Shenzhen
Co-sponsor of Beijing Yixing Public Welfare Foundation

Executive Principal of Beijing Fuping School

CEO Academic Assistant
Project Manager, Social innovation knowledge production

In the Leping Foundation, Yao Sen has been committed to linking cross-disciplinary and cross-industry scholars and practitioners to introduce and localize the International cutting-edge social innovation theories and practices, and accelerate the continuous production and dissemination of top-level social innovation knowledge in China through transformative learning experiences and interactive events., so as to provide extensive support for the practice of social innovation talents and institutions.

Yao Sen graduated from the Department of Mathematical Sciences of Tsinghua University with a bachelor's degree, and obtained a master's degree from the Department of Psychology of New York University.