So Jung Rim

COO

So Jung is the Chief Operating Officer at SIX. So Jung is currently leading on the transnational learning exchange in an EU project, The European Social Innovation Alliance, aimed at building social innovation competence centres across Europe. 

Her role at SIX has been primarily focused on building SIX’s work in challenging universities to embed social innovation and curating SIX’s flagship events such as The Unusual Suspects Festival and the Wayfinder. She has also led SIX’s work in building social innovation networks in Asia and Latin America and has developed capacity building programmes including the Global Social Innovation Academy and other social innovation learning exchange programmes at SIX. 

So Jung is the co-founder of SPREAD-i, a research collaborative which aims to spread ideas, innovation and inspiration between social sectors in Asia and Europe. She has previously worked at social innovation think tanks, Young Foundation (London) and the Hope Institute (Seoul).