Benjamin Yeoh
Associate Fellow, Sustainability Accelerator, Environment and Society Centre
Biography
Benjamin Yeoh is a Senior Portfolio Manager in global equities at a global asset management firm where he specializes in healthcare and has a longstanding focus on sustainability, stewardship and responsible long-term investment. He also chairs the Responsible Investment Advisory Committee for Royal London Asset Management and has previously served on advisory groups for the UK Financial Reporting Council and the International Accounting Standards Board.
His wider work explores the intersections between markets, public policy, technology, health, climate, institutions and human flourishing. He writes Then Do Better, covering ideas across investing, science, technology, culture and society, and hosts Ben Yeoh Chats, a long-form podcast with thinkers and practitioners from economics, science, philosophy, public policy and the arts.
Ben is also an award-winning playwright whose work has been performed in London and on BBC Radio. He is a trustee of the London Mathematical Laboratory and of Improbable (theatre) and has held chair and trustee roles in theatre organisations including Coney and Talawa Theatre Company.
He co-authored the CFA UK textbook on ESG investing. He studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, specialising in experimental psychology and neuroscience, and was a Herschel Smith scholar at Harvard University. He is a CFA charterholder.