Felipe Valencia Dongo

Felipe Valencia-Dongo is a Peruvian social entrepreneur. His passion is to create opportunities for those that most need them: closing inequality gaps in Peru and Latin America and achieving growth with social inclusion. He is the Chief Enterprise Development Officer at Grupo Estrategia where he works with investment projects to achieve Social License (permission to enter or start a project) and Social Acceptance (long-term harmonious coexistence with the communities and social organizations of the project's area of influence). He articulates efforts between the private sector, communities, and the State in order to achieve sustainable development for the three of them.

Before he served as CEO & Fund Manager of Lumni Peru, which operates as an investment fund in higher education, Dongo also served as Advisor to Peru’s Prime Minister and as Advisor to Peru’s Minister of Education while implementing the Educational Reform in Peru. He also worked in poverty reduction with Muhammad Yunus at the Grameen Creative Lab and in the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion of Peru. Dongo is a Global Shaper of the World Economic Forum. He serves on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of IPAE (major private non-profit organization that promotes competitiveness, institutional development and education). He graduated with honors in Economics from Universidad del Pacifico (Lima, Peru) and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Cambridge as a Chevening Scholar.

Dongo is a crazy dreamer who wakes up every day to work to achieve his dreams. In his free time, he enjoys listening to the Beatles, writing poetry, and taking pictures.