About
Sophie Lee is an Innovation Officer for Sourcing at the UNICEF Innovation Fund, where she identifies frontier technology innovations. Before UNICEF, she worked at a UK sustainability start-up supporting private sector engagement with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and led gender-transformative research for an eco-innovation partnership in Bangladesh and Ghana. She spent five years on UNICEF's climate and disaster risk reduction team in New York, where she launched and piloted the child-focused Today & Tomorrow Initiative on disaster risk finance.
Invests in
Climate Tech
Experience
- Community Investment ManagementInvestmentscurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- EnFinCapital Markets2024 — 2025San Francisco Bay Area
- Funding Circle USCapital Markets2022 — 2024San Francisco, California, United States
- PENNYMACCapital Markets2021 — 2022Westlake Village, California, United States
Skills & more
Bloomberg TerminalTradewebSQLMicrosoft ExcelInvestmentsFinancingCapital RaisingStatistical Data AnalysisFixed Income AnalysisAsset-Backed Securities (ABS)Deal StructuringFinancial Modeling
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AccountingFinancial Analysis- Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) — CFA Institute
From Sophie's professional profile.
Colleagues at UNICEF Innovation Fund
Amogh Banta
Blockchain Specialist at UNICEF Innovation Fund
Aparna Bhushan
Data Security & Privacy Mentor at UNICEF Innovation Fund
Arun Maharajan
Blockchain Lead at UNICEF Innovation Fund
Candela Gonzalez
Programme Associate at UNICEF Innovation Fund
Cheryl Ng
Startup Ecosystem Consultant at UNICEF Innovation Fund
Daniel Alvarez
Data Science Lead at UNICEF Innovation Fund
Desiree Lim Sim Yee
Portfolio Strategist at UNICEF Innovation Fund
Halim Jun
DS/ML Advisor at UNICEF Innovation Fund
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Sophie Lee?
- Sophie Lee is an Innovation Officer for Sourcing at the UNICEF Innovation Fund, where she identifies frontier technology innovations. Before UNICEF, she worked at a UK sustainability start-up supporting private sector engagement with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and led gender-transformative research for an eco-innovation partnership in Bangladesh and Ghana. She spent five years on UNICEF's climate and disaster risk reduction team in New York, where she launched and piloted the child-focused Today & Tomorrow Initiative on disaster risk finance.
- Where does Sophie Lee work?
- Sophie Lee is Innovation Officer, Sourcing at UNICEF Innovation Fund.
- What does Sophie Lee invest in?
- Sophie Lee invests in Climate Tech.
- Where did Sophie Lee go to school?
- Sophie Lee studied at UC Santa Barbara (Bachelor's, Economics and Accounting).
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Shared employers
Also worked at Community Investment Management16
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Also worked at Funding Circle US11
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