Joan Ai ’94

Joan Ai is a Secondee at the World Economic Forum (through DQ Institute and the Coalition for Digital Intelligence) to support critical digital preparedness skills for Industry 4.0 globally.

Joan’s start-up, Prepared Child is a member of the NYU Steinhardt Edtech Incubator (powered by StartEd). She is a social impact entrepreneur and leader with extensive corporate social responsibility (CSR) experience from world-class institutions including: Goldman Sachs, Guardian Life and JPMorgan Chase. Joan was a co-founder of Social Investment Advisors, a boutique consulting practice that specialized in providing turnkey CSR strategies to top tier companies (i.e., Tom Ford) and nonprofit institutions.

Joan serves in various leadership positions for Dartmouth College and is a Co-Chair for the Collegiate School’s Annual Fund. She is a Sustainer for the New York Junior League and is a New York Advisory Council member for Common Sense.

She graduated with high honors from Dartmouth College and attended the Tuck Bridge Program at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.