Joanna Yeo is the founder and CEO of Arukah, a Singapore-based venture-backed fintech scaling climate transition financing to smallholder farmers and micro-merchants in emerging market supply chains, starting with India and Indonesia.

Joanna is currently a Class of 2023 Asia 21 Next Generation Fellow (Asia Society) and serves as an impact investment committee member for the Sanitation and Hygiene Fund; an independent director for Collectius, the World Bank/IFC’s distressed asset recovery partner for Southeast Asia; and an advisor to Figure Technologies, a US-regulated fintech backed by MUFG and Ribbit Capital. Her career has spanned data, investing and building new financial services businesses, including a US$2 billion pan-Asian fund strategy at Morgan Stanley, and a blockchain infrastructure that has processed over US$12 billion in financial services transactions among regulated institutions including Apollo Global Management. Since 2012, she has also been involved in first-time sustainability reporting, investing, and product development across real estate, public equities, and debt.

Joanna began her career in international economic policy research, graduating summa cum laude from Harvard and with master’s degrees from Stanford GSB and Cambridge, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar.