Ms. Mei Lin Fung

Chair & Co-Founder, People Centered Internet

Chair, People Centered Internet co-founded with Vint Cerf. Closing keynote on Decade of Digital Transformation at the World Bank IFC Global SME Financing Forum October 2020, she presented at the World Economic Forum (WEF) Digital Economics launch in 2017. Mei Lin is an early pioneer of customer relationship management (CRM) now a $40B industry. Socio-technical lead for US Federal Health Futures initiative, she is on the WEF Cross Border Data flows, Payments and Genomics and Ethics working groups. Chair of IEEE Standards Association Industry Connections Social Impact Measurement, on the Executive Committee for IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee, she served as Vice Chair, Internet Inclusion for the IEEE Internet Initiative. Mei Lin is Singaporean, living for decades in Silicon Valley working at Intel then Oracle. Starting work as a software programmer at Shell Australia, with Maya Bundt of Swiss Re, her path led in 2016-2018 to WEF’s Global Future Council on Digital Economy and Society. With BSc in Math from ANU, MBA from MIT where she studied under, she cofounded the @GlobalHelpDesk with Nicole Patrice deMember connecting Tech communities with ITU,UNDP, World Bank and WEF to respond practically to 1.6 billion children who have been pandemic-disrupted.