Rosa Wang

Rosa L. Wang is a specialist on innovation and creativity and is focused on developments that catalyze significant systems change. From 2002-2011 she worked with Ashoka, the pioneering organization for social entrepreneurship. She initially served as interim Director of Finance and then focused on two clusters of Ashoka fellows: those working on innovative methods to mobilize capital to solve large global problems and those working on the intersection of invention and technology and social change.

Prior to her work with social entrepreneurs, Rosa spent 12 years as a portfolio manager and investment banker, with past employers including the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Lehman Brothers, and Dresdner RCM. She lived and worked in Asia for 7 years, based out of Hong Kong, cultivating and developing new capital markets in the region.

Rosa was instrumental in introducing Asia to new foreign investors through on-site visits, lectures, and reports and created and launched the first Luxembourg-listed Asian local currency fund. In addition, she co-managed a team of 23 investment professionals and research analysts based throughout the region. She was a frequent commentator on Asian growth and new market opportunities and a regular speaker and moderator at numerous conferences.

Residing in Silicon Valley in California with her husband, researcher and author Eric Drexler, Rosa is currently involved with a number of organizations focused on advanced, anticipated technologies, social change, and social entrepreneurship. Rosa obtained a Masters degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Economics from Rhodes College in Memphis Tennessee. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst.