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Chen Yidan (陈一丹, born 1971), also known as Charles Chen, is a Chinese internet entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of Tencent, founder of the Chen Yidan Charity Foundation, and founder of the Yidan Prize Foundation.
Our founder Dr Charles CHEN Yidan knows the difference education can make to a person's life. After all, it certainly changed his. After he'd passed China’s highly competitive gaokao university entrance exam, he went on to earn two degrees: a bachelor's in applied chemistry from Shenzhen University and a master’s in economic law from ...
Core Founder, Tencent. Dr Charles CHEN Yidan established the Yidan Prize Foundation in 2016 with a mission to create a better world through education. Charles is recognized as the Father of Internet Philanthropy. In 1998, he co-founded Tencent and was its Chief Administrative Officer.
Entrepreneur Charles Chen Yidan changed the internet in Mainland China forever as a co-founder of Tencent—now he’s giving his money, energy and time to transforming education around the world.
Jun 28, 2019 · Chen, who launched the Yidan Prize in 2016 “to create a better world through education”, held up Stanford’s role as the “farm system” for Silicon Valley as “a perfect example of how schools and the private sector thrive together and reinforces innovation in each other’s DNA”.
Jan 18, 2017 · Charles Chen Yidan, who co-founded China's internet company, Tencent, wants to use the prize to scale up innovative education research projects and replicate them across the world.
The Yidan Prize Foundation is a global philanthropic foundation. Through its prize and network of changemakers, it supports ideas and practices in education—specifically, ones with the power to positively change lives, systems, and society.
