WHO WE ARE

Our story began in rural Tanzania, where we met many students who want to undertake an international career but did not know where to start. A few years later, armed with graduate degrees and connections with universities, we are ready to help them.

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XIAOCHEN SU, PH.D.

Founder and Managing Director

Doctor of Philosophy, the University of Tokyo (Japan)

Master of Science, London School of Economics (UK)

Bachelor of Arts, Yale University (US)

Having grown up in mainland China, Japan, and the US, Xiaochen Su spent his whole life living and studying abroad. While leading the creation of new microfinance and retail operations in rural Tanzania for the US-based nonprofit One Acre Fund, he saw face to face the need to provide better access to global education for talented local youths.

Xiaochen completed his Ph.D. in November 2021, with his dissertation on the social integration of the Chinese migrant community in the Russian Far East. He was also previously involved in international business development and market analyses for the multinational e-commerce firm Lazada Group in Malaysia and the Philippines, as well as for the internet conglomerate Rakuten in Japan.

WHAT WE DO

As a global non-profit organization, we connect students with universities in other countries in three ways:

OUTREACH

We run seminars for students around the world, informing them of the joys and pitfalls of study abroad

PARTNERSHIP

We work with top universities to develop programs better suited to the needs of international students

ADVOCACY

We call upon governments and companies to enact policies that better support study abroad students and universities taking them in

The result of our work is a support network of educators, officials, study abroad alumna, and current students, who together help more and more youths from around the globe to fulfill their dreams of undertaking an international education.

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