JENNIFER FAN
Vice-Chair of Caregivers Alliance Limited
Mental health is a topic close to Jennifer Fan’s heart, but also one she has kept under wraps for most of her life. After getting her MBA at Harvard Business School, Jennifer built a successful two decades-and-counting career in finance, with roles in investment banking, hedge funds and private equity under her belt. She is now the Head of Asia at a Swiss asset management company where she leads the business and its management. In 2013, she started volunteering with Caregivers Alliance Limited (CAL), a local non-profit organisation supporting caregivers of persons with mental health issues, but only began sharing her story publicly after two years.
Jennifer has been a caregiver from a young age as her father suffers from schizophrenia – a psychiatric disorder he has had his entire life, including through Jennifer’s childhood. “As a child, when friends know that you have this issue at home and your father’s not quite normal, you get stigmatised. I learnt from a very early age that I’m not going to tell my story; I’m just going to be as normal as possible. That carried on all the way into adulthood and even after I joined CAL,” she recounts.
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