Philippe is the Deputy CEO of Kido Education, a company leveraging a unique network of international nurseries and virtual preschool offerings to deliver quality early years care and education to children everywhere. Having recently seeded Kido Village in India, a platform for home-based microschools, Kido is looking to back thousands of female entrepreneurs in the next five years. Prior to joining Kido, Philippe spent fifteen years in finance, most recently having set up and ran Standard Chartered Bank’s public sector group, where he was responsible for the Bank’s global business with governments, supranationals, NGOs and Microfinance. Philippe has worked in New York, Mexico City, Singapore, Dubai and now London where he lives with his wife Yinghao and their three children, Joah, Meilita and Kaia. Philippe has a B.A. in international relations from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) from Georgetown University, where he is also a founding member of the MSFS advisory board.