Charlene Liu was born in Malaysia and has lived in the US, Singapore, and China.  She is an engineer, community leader, social change advocate, and diversity and inclusion expert.​

She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a BSc in Electrical Engineering and has 20+ years of working experience in different areas of the Semiconductor & Electronics industry, ranging from design, engineering, manufacturing, project management to sales and marketing.  She has experience with events, corporate innovation, and management consulting at PwC and was the Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging APAC at Arcadis.​

Charlene has 17 years of community leadership, commercial event management, and Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) advocacy experience.  In 2009, she co-founded ShanghaiPRIDE, an annual festival run entirely by volunteers that promotes LGBT+ inclusion, in 2014 Q-Events, an event management company, in 2016 Ladies Who Tech, a social impact community for women in STEM, and in 2019, D&I Consulting DNIC, a consultancy which helps corporations build a more inclusive culture.  Recently, she was elected as an Executive Board Member, Women Representative of ILGA Asia.  Charlene is now embarking on a full-time journey managing these platforms.​

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In 2014, she and team ShanghaiPRIDE were awarded Shanghai Hero by Time Out Shanghai, and in 2018, Best Event Organizer in East China by Huodongxing.​