Team
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Contact: fanyu@worldhomefoundation.org
Fanyu Lin is an award-winning entrepreneur and architect, passionate about impact investing. She founded the World Home Foundation to harness philanthropic power for tackling the global housing crisis - one of the biggest social, economic and moral challenges facing humanity today.
Fanyu serves as CEO of Fluxus, a real estate & infrastructure technology and consulting company, committed to sustainable way of building energy-efficient buildings and net-zero cities to improve quality of life. Fanyu serves on the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Connected World, to shape governance and innovation of the internet of things (IoT) and related technologies in the global public interest. Fanyu serves on its New Economy Cities Council, collaborating on a methodical, citizen-centric approach to urbanization.
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Contact: josh@worldhomefoundation.org
Josh Graham is a social impact and technology entrepreneur, serving as Director of Operations at the World Home Foundation. Josh’s role is varied given his multi-purpose skillset. He has been helping to develop the 3 pillars that underpin the first wave of WHF action. He has been pulling together partners from around the world to help contribute to the global ESG standard and ensuring there is a project pipeline, starting with a pilot, for the P2P funding platform.
Over the last 6 years, Josh has launched 3 social impact companies and a tech startup. His experience ranges from strategy, fundraising, product development, user research, workshop facilitation, concept creation, pitching, public speaking, sales, hiring and leadership. His dedicated mission in life is to have as much positive impact on people and the planet as possible. His vision is to see a world where sustainability, education, creativity and peace are the core elements of global society.
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Contact: stephen@worldhomefoundation.org
Mr. Chan is an experienced finance professional who has earned professional designations in Canada, US and UK. As a Chief Financial Officer, his contribution include strategizing and solidifying the strategic plan and business plan of the World Home Foundation from inception. He utilizes his multi-jurisdictional knowledge and experience to manage our World Home Foundation similar to an enterprise but the difference is that the beneficiaries and stakeholders are environment, society and humanity.
For more than 20 years, his senior financial expertise has been helping both public and private companies involved in manufacturing, automobile, FMCG, mining, real estate development, microfinance, financial leasing, hi-tech, fintech, medtech, R&D, telecom, mobile phone, big data, eCommerce, social enterprise, shipping and various other industries as a CFO and other similar roles. His professional practices includes financial management, budgeting, reporting, audit, operation performance, turnaround, risk management, corporate finance, tax planning, FX management, M&A, IPO, RTO, SPAC, resumption, ESG, internal control, cost control, IR, roadshow, compliance, corporate governance, strategic planning, corporate resources optimization, fundraising and management consulting work in Canada, US, China, HK, and other countries in Europe, Asia and Africa.
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Contact: filipe@worldhomefoundation.org
Filipe Moura is a creative, coder and designer, serving as Director of Technology at the World Home Foundation, with over twenty years in technology. He brings his knowledge and specialties in Human-Computer Interaction into the product perspective of the foundation’s platforms. Experienced in the full cycle of product development, from ideation to leading, through the technical development, strategy, and launch of innovative products.
He is the CTO and Head of Product at EHAB, a construtech - UK gov and privately backed - that helps construction companies prepare for the evolving challenge of the climate crisis with advanced weather risk management technology. Previous experiences range from R&D for international telecoms, through financial market solutions in London to founding Brazil's first crowdfunded company, Metamáquina - developing the country's first 3D printer and credited for kickstarting the makers scene -, managing tech of one of the world's leading activist organisations, developing a EU funded climate change educational platform for European schools, as well as consulting on innovation, technology and strategy for Blockchain based solutions, to multiple companies in Europe, US and Latin America.
Advisors
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Seth Perlman is the World Home Foundation’s principal legal counsel. He is a partner at Perlman & Perlman law firm. He has been providing legal counsel to the philanthropic sector for more than thirty years. He works with large public charities, private foundations, fundraising professionals, for-profit businesses engaged in philanthropy, international NGOs and social enterprises.
Seth assists clients to optimize their ability to achieve mission by advising on matters relating to organizational structure, governance, regulatory compliance and nonprofit commercial activities. He advises social entrepreneurs seeking to provide social benefit through non-traditional for profit organizational structures. Seth has litigated in several state and federal jurisdictions on issues relevant to the philanthropic community. He is an outspoken advocate for the sector through his participation with nonprofit trade associations including the Association of Fundraising Professionals, the Association of Direct Response Fundraising Counsel, Independent Sector, and the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York. He is a founding board member of the Charity Defense Council in support of their mission “to change the way people think about changing the world”. Seth is an advisor to C-level executives and the boards of a broad range of U.S. nonprofits. He sits on the boards of philanthropic organizations in Canada, France, Germany, and the Netherlands.
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Philippe Le Houérou was Chief Executive Officer of IFC from March 2016 to September 2020. Mr. Le Houérou designed and implemented a new strategy aimed at “creating new markets and opportunities” in developing countries. This strategy, known as IFC 3.0, transitioned the organization towards proactively expanding private sector solutions to development challenges in IFC’s countries of operation. The strategy also involves working more closely with the World Bank, other development partners, and governments.
To support this strategy, Mr. Le Houérou introduced a system that measures development impact in each IFC project at its inception; developed the “Cascade” approach—trying private solutions before going for public finance—that leverages the entire World Bank Group to attract much more private sector investment and optimize public debt in developing countries; helped create new instruments to attract more private sector investments in fragile states and poor countries; and established country private sector diagnostics and IFC country strategies. Shareholders’ support of this strategy led to their endorsement in 2018 of a historic capital increase for IFC. To align the organization with the new strategy, Mr. Le Houérou also oversaw a restructuring that strengthened economics; partnerships; corporate alignment among strategy, budget, and human resources; country focus; and upstream work to generate bankable projects. Mr. Le Houérou holds an MBA from Columbia University and a Ph.D in Economics from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.