Chair, Co-Founder, People Centered Internet, USA
DR. MEI LIN FUNG is Chair and CoFounder (with Vint Cerf) of the People-Centered Internet. Through PCI she works to ensure that people are at the center of the Internet as digital interdependence reshapes societies and economies. A key focus of her work as PCI Chair is to promote resilient communities financed with digital assets, using data so that communities can connect and members can thrive.
She draws on her early training as a Financial Analyst at Intel, in Operations Research at Shell, and her extensive experience in developing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) approaches, bringing systematic evidence-based analysis to the complex supply and demand for information. She also worked as a socio-technical lead for Federal Health Futures at DoD where she realized that the financial sustainability of Community Health Centers in the US can be greatly enhanced by applying the lessons learned within tech corporations on managing operations to improve the effective delivery of desired outcomes. Through PCI she has built alliances based on people-centered ecosystems with the IEEE, World Economic Forum, World Bank, UN, and others at the country and regional levels. Recently appointed “HPI Fellow” from the Hasso Plattner Institute for her work to promote sustainable digital technologies.