Chong-Lim Lee is the Senior Director for Programs at Synergos, a global network building trust and collaboration to address complex issues of poverty, social injustice, and climate change. Chong-Lim helps establish and grow in-country programs for systems-approach solutions on priority issues including maternal and child health, nutrition, agricultural transformation, early childhood care and development, education, and social entrepreneurship. These programs have operated in Bangladesh, India, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Namibia, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Canadian First Nations, and the Arab World.
Synergos’ programs activate actors in government, business, philanthropy, and civil society toward shared goals through its bridging leadership approach. Chong-Lim is a co-editor, with Mark Gerzon and Shirley Pendlebury, on Bridging Leadership Voices: Building trust for collective action, a book and accompanying podcast series with insights from practitioners around the world who are driven by personal and shared purpose to lead with an inclusive, collective response.
Chong-Lim is a 2021 Fellow in the Women InPower network of social impact-focused senior-level women leaders in New York City, selected by the 92NY Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact. She received her B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University and M.Sc. from New School University.
