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Yanice Mak - Founder and CEO​​
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Education is always a passion of Yanice. She founded Foster Worldwide, an award-winning EdTech company advocating for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 on Quality Education. The company's mission is to foster the next generation to become young global leaders by providing quality Career Education and Virtual Global internships. As a pioneer in providing Virtual Global Internships, Foster Worldwide has successfully collaborated with more than 170 companies from over 60 countries and cities to provide placement and training to 5000 youths worldwide to boost their employability. Partners include international corporates, universities, and NGOs - One Young World and United Nations Global Compact.

Yanice's life goal is to make this world a better place for the next generation. Since being a girl guide when she was six years old, she has been actively involved and taking various leadership roles in community services for more than 20 years. Given this long experience, she is appointed by the Hong Kong government to serve on five committees, advising on related policy and strategic planning. Currently, she is an advisory member of the Hong Kong government’s Community Investment and Inclusion Fund, an HKD$700 million fund for promoting the World Bank Social Capital Initiative in Hong Kong. Other public service affiliations include the Committee on Promotion of Organ Donation, Built Heritage Conservation Fund, Appeal Panel (Housing), Independent Police Complaints Council, United Nations Global Compact and more. Prior to joining The WEMP Foundation and CTFEG, she worked as the General Manager at the Rotary International District 3450, a 117-year-old global nonprofit organization.

Prior to her work in the social sector, she worked as a Research Associate at Harvard Business School in the United States. The research project she contributed to was formulating an effective policy for the mainland China government to encourage youth entrepreneurship. At the same time, she worked with a Boston-based venture capital firm focusing on medical technology sector investment. During her tenure, she had the opportunity to work with Dr. Walter Gilbert, a Nobel laureate and the co-founder of the publicly listed US company Biogen.

Yanice holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Master’s Degree in Innovation and Technology from Boston University with the Rotary Global Grant Scholarship.

Let's make a difference and build a better society together!

Our Advisor

Professor Wai Kit Ming

• Assistant Dean of International School, Associate Professor at Jinan University
• MD(JNU), MPH(HKU), MMSc(Harvard), EMBA(Peking), DipMed(CUHK), PDipCAH(HKU), FRSPH(UK)
• Post-doctoral Training at Harvard University and University of Oxford ​​

Professor Billy Ng 

• Assistant Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Post-doctoral Training at Harvard University
• Research Fellow at University of Oxford
• Croucher Foundation Scholar
• Fulbright Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Eugene Fong

• Director and Deputy General Manager of Junefair Group
• ​District Governor 2013-14 of Rotary International District 3450 
• Executive Committee Member of UNESCO HK Association Global Peace Centre
• ​Advisory Committee member of HKSAR Government’s
  - Family Council 
  - Task Force on Promotion of Vocational and Professional Education and Training
  - Committee on Professional Development of Teachers and Principals
  - Committee on Home-School Co-operation
  ​- Council on Professional Conduct in Education 

Professor Barry Unger

• Associate Professor at 
  ​Boston University 
• ​Founder of Xerox Imaging System
• Co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Enterprise Forum
• Recipient of the Vincent A. Fulmer Lifetime Achievement Award at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• ​EdD(Harvard), SB(MIT)