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Sasibai Kimis is a Malaysian social entrepreneur and founder of Earth Heir, an award-winning social enterprise dedicated to preserving traditional craftsmanship while empowering marginalized communities. She brings deep expertise in social enterprise development, ethical fashion, and sustainability, collaborating with artisans across diverse cultural and generational backgrounds, including rural women, indigenous communities, refugees, and persons with disabilities. Under her leadership, Earth Heir has become B-Corp and WFTO Fair Trade certified, creating contempo...Read More
Sasibai Kimis left a successful career in the finance industry to start the award-winning impact enterprise and craftsmanship focused brand, EARTH HEIR®, in February 2013. Earth Heir's story began with a desire to create thoughtfully designed, contemporary heritage pieces handcrafted by master artisans in Malaysia. Each Earth Heir piece exemplifies workmanship with the distinctive impression of human hands with personal and cultural narratives. Earth Heir works with disappearing heritage art forms, and advocates fair trade principles, sustainability and ethical partnerships. As part of its social and ecological mission, Earth Heir focuses on the sustainability of its products and supply chain.
Earth Heir won the British Council and Arthur Guinness Projects Social Enterprise Award 2015 and Sasibai was one of Wharton's “40 under 40” award winners in 2015 and an Eisenhower Fellow in the 2015 Women's Leadership Program. She is a Vital Voices Grow 2019 Fellow, an Asia21 Young Leader 2017 with the Asia Society and is the Country Coordinator for Fashion Revolution Malaysia.
Prior to Earth Heir, Sasi was a Vice President in the Investments division at Khazanah Nasional (Malaysia), a Director in the Private Equity team at First Avenue Partners LLP (London), worked in Ghana with Opportunities Industrialization Centers International and the United Nations Development Program, and in New York as an Investment Banking Analyst at Lehman Brothers.
Sasibai received a B.S in Economics (Finance and Management) cum laude from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and an M.Phil in Environment and Development from Cambridge University. She has spoken widely at universities, conferences (such as TEDx) and forums in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, U.K, United States, Switzerland and Japan.
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