Violet founded Inclusive Business Lab and Inclusive Business Foundation, and believes that transforming capitalism and leadership development as well as technology innovation and big data play a key role in tackling rich-poor gap and systemic poverty issues.
Violet received her PhD degree in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 1998, where she was a Croucher Foundation Scholar. From 1998 to 2011, she worked for investment banks in London, New York and Hong Kong, including Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, Barclays Capital and Tokyo-Mitsubishi International, specializing in strategic investments, portfolio allocation and capital management for financial institutions and pension funds in UK, Europe, USA and Pan-Asia.
She has served as an advisor and board director for a micro-finance company in China, Guest Professor at Beijing Normal University School of Social Development and Public Policy, and currently also serves as an Honorary Principal for Jiangsu Province Dagang High School in China.