Richard H. Lawrence, Jr., is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Overlook Investments Group, an independent fund management company that invests US$ 7 billion in a concentrated portfolio of public equities throughout Asia, excluding Japan. Overlook has compounded investors’ capital at close to 14% per year for 29 years.Richard grew up outside New York City and graduated from South Kent School in 1974, and Brown University in 1978 with a degree in Economics. In 1986, he became the second Chartered Financial Analyst in Asia, before founding Overlook in 1991. In 2004 Richard and his wife, Dee, founded Proyecto Mirador Foundation, a non-profit organization that has built over 200,000 fuel-efficient stoves in rural communities across Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. In 2016 the Lawrences founded Cool Effect, a non-profit online platform that enables individuals, SMEs and Fortune 500 companies to offset their carbon emissions through the highest quality carbon reduction projects worldwide. In 2017 they established High Tide Foundation, a non-profit organization involved in the fight against climate change. Richard is a member of the Board of Directors of The National Audubon Society. He currently lives in San Francisco, California, with his wife and two adult children.