Sean Hinton

Biography

Sean Hinton is an impact investment and strategy advisor to major philanthropies, family offices, and corporations.

From 2015 - 2022 Sean was the CEO of the Soros Economic Development Fund (SEDF) and Director of the Economic Justice Program at the Open Society Foundations. Prior to this, he was a strategic investment advisor focusing on China, Mongolia, and Africa and the social and economic impact of large-scale extractive investments working for Goldman Sachs (Asia) and the Rio Tinto group. He began his career as a consultant at McKinsey & Company and worked for many years in film, television and newspapers. He is a Henry Crown fellow of the Aspen Institute, and an Executive-in-Residence at University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School and serves on the boards of: Natural Resources Governance Institute, Nature Finance, and the Baha’i Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland.