Durreen Shahnaz is Adjunct Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY School) at the National University of Singapore. She has been a change maker throughout her career which has spanned both the private and social sectors. In private sector, as the head of three regional media companies (Asia City Publishing Group, Hearst Magazines International and Reader’s Digest Asia), Prof Shahnaz worked vigorously to incorporate social responsibility in these companies’ work. Durreen also has a track record as a successful social entrepreneur. She founded, ran and sold a socially conscious, for-profit business called oneNest in New York. She also had a banking stint at Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Grameen Bank (Bangladesh) and World Bank. Durreen holds a BA from Smith College (double major in Economics and Government); and a joint graduate degree -- MBA from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (Finance) and MA from School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University (International Economics and International Relations).