Reese Wong is a 21-year-old award-winning social entrepreneur, community-builder and speaker. At age 16, he founded ISSIA, Hong Kong’s largest youth-led nonprofit. The organization empowers changemakers through project-based learning. Since 2019, ISSIA has involved 500+ volunteers from 80+ schools, launched 30+ projects around the Sustainable Development Goals and has been... Read more
Reese Wong is a 21-year-old award-winning social entrepreneur, community-builder and speaker.
At age 16, he founded ISSIA, Hong Kong’s largest youth-led nonprofit. The organization empowers changemakers through project-based learning. Since 2019, ISSIA has involved 500+ volunteers from 80+ schools, launched 30+ projects around the Sustainable Development Goals and has been featured on Nasdaq and major city-wide publications throughout Hong Kong.
As an international speaker, Reese has delivered 100+ talks to 5000+ attendees on education and social entrepreneurship. As a social impact champion, he has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Global Shaper and one of WEF’s youngest Curators, 2024 Diana Award Recipient, Aspen UK Rising Leader, Future Minds 25 Under 25 and PMI UK Scholar.
He also serves as a Young Fellows Advisory Board Member at the Royal Society of Arts and a Board Trustee at LSE’s Student Union.
Reese Wong previously worked as a Communications Consultant for Ashoka, the world’s leading community of social entrepreneurs. He was also the Community Manager at the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. His other experiences include stints at the UK Cabinet Office, U.S. Department of State, Linklaters, McKinsey and more.
More recently, Reese is the Founder of Micromeetup, Chairman of the LSE Entrepreneurs Society, the Managing Director of London Strategic Consulting (LSC) and studies International Relations at the London School of Economics (LSE)
This keynote will cover how taking social action at age 16 has fundamentally changed the trajectory of my life and expanded the horizons of my imagination.
This workshop introduces the concept of social entrepreneurship and how young people can identify their passions (Ikigai framework) and work towards launching a socially impactful project and position themselves as future global leaders