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2020 - Carol SZETO'90
Carol Szeto is the CEO of Save the Children Hong Kong, a charity organisation which is part of the global Save the Children movement, which has presence in almost 120 countries and works to ensure that the world’s most vulnerable children survive, learn and are protected. To fight the current COVID-19 pandemic, Carol has led her organisation to deliver medical and hygiene supplies to unprivileged communities in Hong Kong and China, while contributing to the global response efforts in other countries.
“Carol reaches for the stars and takes risks,” says her nominator for this award. “She is selfless and travels to the poorest part of developing countries to educate the locals to make the world a better place.”
Before taking the helm of Save the Children in Hong Kong this past January, she was a Senior Country Manager at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, an international organisation based in Switzerland. Gavi partners with the World Health Organisation, UNICEF, the World Bank, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and other development partners to improve access to new and underused vaccines for children living in some of the poorest countries. At Gavi, Carol managed the India and Nepal portfolios and also the global vaccine programmes for pneumonia and diarrhea.
Carol’s previous experience also includes strategy and policy at The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, marketing at Pfizer in the U.S. and the Latin America/Africa/Middle East region, and management consulting at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. She started her career as a Research Engineer at Merck & Company.
Carol has a BSc in chemical engineering from Cornell University and an MBA in finance from New York University. She was born in Canada and grew up in Hong Kong. She has also lived in the United States, Ireland, Ghana and Switzerland.
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“Carol reaches for the stars and takes risks,” says her nominator for this award. “She is selfless and travels to the poorest part of developing countries to educate the locals to make the world a better place.”
Before taking the helm of Save the Children in Hong Kong this past January, she was a Senior Country Manager at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, an international organisation based in Switzerland. Gavi partners with the World Health Organisation, UNICEF, the World Bank, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and other development partners to improve access to new and underused vaccines for children living in some of the poorest countries. At Gavi, Carol managed the India and Nepal portfolios and also the global vaccine programmes for pneumonia and diarrhea.
Carol’s previous experience also includes strategy and policy at The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, marketing at Pfizer in the U.S. and the Latin America/Africa/Middle East region, and management consulting at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. She started her career as a Research Engineer at Merck & Company.
Carol has a BSc in chemical engineering from Cornell University and an MBA in finance from New York University. She was born in Canada and grew up in Hong Kong. She has also lived in the United States, Ireland, Ghana and Switzerland.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We wish to acknowledge this land on which Branksome operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Wendat, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous peoples from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work and go to school on this land.*
*The Land Acknowledgement may evolve as we honour our commitment to Truth and Reconciliation in partnership with Indigenous communities.
*The Land Acknowledgement may evolve as we honour our commitment to Truth and Reconciliation in partnership with Indigenous communities.
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