Hanyuan (Karen) Wang is a climate entrepreneur with a data science background from China. Her goal is to build technologies to facilitate decision-making in order to combat climate change, especially in developing countries. Karen serves as the CEO and founder of Climind, a data-as-a-service platform that delivers actionable climate data infrastructure through AI technologies to facilitate mitigation and adaptation solutions.
Karen is also a research assistant at Imperial College London’s Centre for Climate Finance and Investment, where her work centers on voluntary carbon markets, climate risks, and nature-based solutions with a particular focus on the Asian market. She was named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 as a founding member of Carbonbase, a climate technology startup providing carbon accounting software to help institutions meet their net zero goals.
In addition to her climate-focused pursuits, Karen has gained valuable experience in the data sector through her work with Merrill Lynch and Microsoft. She went to Hong Kong Baptist University, Imperial College London, and is a Schwarzman Scholar from Tsinghua University.
With her Bai ethnic background Karen also dedicates her time to preserving the Bai dialect in China.