Heena Patel

Indonesia

Trip:

Singapore

Mentored by:

Michelle Garnaut

Business

Executive Director, The Island Foundation

Heena Patel currently runs The Island Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of subsistence coastal communities in the Riau Archipelago through education and literacy, village development and marine conservation.

Previously, Ms. Patel worked in environmental protection at the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) office in Nairobi, Kenya and the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID).