Lorena Garcia Duran is the Global Leader of the Canopy Team at Ashoka, the world’s largest network of social entrepreneurs. She launched this team and efforts in the summer of 2020. Lorena joined Ashoka in 2008 and has been known for orchestrating partnerships between social and business entrepreneurs. She launched Ashoka in Miami back in 2011 making it a Latin American hub for all Ashoka efforts.

She is a Board member of Imperative Fund, an impact investment fund focused on sustainable models addressing poverty.

Lorena grew up in Mexico City. At eighteen years old she moved to Paris to study French at La Sorbonne. She graduated from La Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca in Spain. She now resides in Washington DC.