NECR Alumni Career Deep Dive: Technology, Public Policy, and Education
NECR Career Deep Dives are a monthly series program alumni share insights and experiences from their careers in conflict resolution with prospective and current students.
Alumni discuss their career trajectories, professional trends they have observed, and offer career insights they have gained. There is ample time for Q+A at the end.
Event Speaker
Currently, Jonathan Chang is the Head of Country - Google for Education Next Billion Users (NBU), with a major focus on Indonesia. Prior to Google, he served as the Senior Advisor for Higher Education at the Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia. In addition, he was the Executive Director of National University of Singapore Entrepreneurship Centre and the Overseas Colleges, and Singapore Management University Lien Centre for Social Innovation (where Jonathan pioneered the university’s accreditation as Asia’s first Ashoka Changemaker Campus).
Deep-rooted in entrepreneurship, Jonathan has co-founded several start-ups across sectors in Silicon Valley, Manhattan, Singapore, and Jakarta - two of his ventures raised funding from Y-Combinator and 500Startups. As a global speaker and media commentator, Jonathan has given lectures and talks across six continents and written articles for Channel NewsAsia. Jonathan received the coveted European Foundation for Management Development Case Writing Award for documenting an innovative social enterprise in Bali. His TEDx talk at Harvard about the importance of a mission-driven life was featured by Voice of America.
Jonathan finds solace and inspiration from mountaineering, having trekked to Mt. Everest Base Camp and summited Mt. Kilimanjaro, Mt. Kala Patthar, Mt. Nagarjuna, and Mt. Kinabalu.
Questions
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