James Chen

James Chen is a Hong-Kong based businessman and philanthropist who has been working to bring universal access to vision correction to the developing world for the last 12 years. As well as founding Adlens in 2005, which makes adjustable glasses that can quickly and easily be fitted to people who need them, he founded Vision for a Nation Foundation to help bring vision correction to people in Rwanda– a unique and groundbreaking initiative which is now an integrated part of Rwanda’s health system. In 2016, James Chen launched Clearly, a new campaign to bring together innovators, scientists, technology firms and big business with investors, governments and NGOs to rethink the approach to world vision.