Billy Chan is a second-year MPP candidate and Coverdell Fellow at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. He is focused on researching how fragile states can cultivate resilience through social innovation, lean entrepreneurship, and institution building. At Yale, he coordinates the Jackson Salon, co-launched the Jackson Human Rights student group, and is the teaching fellow for MGT 541 Corporate Finance course.

For his summer internship, he worked as an economist with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as a Coca-Cola World Fellow, advising executive offices across the Asia-Pacific on inclusive growth strategies. He has also served for the U.S. Department of State as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Republic of Georgia and as a Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan.

Billy is from the U.S. and Myanmar. He proudly helped establish Parami University, Myanmar’s first and only internationally accredited liberal arts institution, and continues to serve as an executive administrator for them. He graduated from New York University through the Global Scholarship Program (Shanghai) with a bachelor's degree in physics and chemistry.