Corrine Gray

Corinne Gray is a strategist, investor, and social entrepreneur who works at the intersection of innovation, impact, and systems change. She currently serves as Director of Portfolio and Investment Strategy at Unreasonable Group, a global platform that backs entrepreneurs solving the world's most pressing problems, and is Co-founder of Uncomfortable Revolution, a social enterprise working to change the narrative around chronic illness and disability. She also serves as mentor and advisor to startups and startup networks across Europe.

Corinne's connection to displaced communities is not incidental. Her passion for local innovation and entrepreneurship was shaped while working across townships in Southern Africa, delivering micro-entrepreneurial training and mentorship to asylum seekers. She went on to work at the forefront of UNHCR's innovation programme, where she led strategies to engage staff, partners, and refugees in open innovation. She later served as a Financial Technology Specialist, investigating emerging technologies including Blockchain as tools for including displaced people in the financial economy — work that remains as relevant today as when she pioneered it.

Before launching her own ventures, Corinne spent a year in residence at MIT's Sloan School of Management as an Innovation and Global Leadership Fellow, completing an MBA while building Uncomfortable Revolution. She holds a Master's Degree from Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, earned through a Fulbright Scholarship awarded by the U.S. State Department. She also holds a Professional Certificate in Impact Investing and Social Enterprise Management from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, and a Certificate in Sustainability Studies from MIT.

Corinne brings to YSAT's Board a rare combination: deep field experience with displaced communities, a track record of building and backing innovations that reach the margins of the financial and social economy, and the strategic perspective of someone who has worked inside both the UN system and the global startup ecosystem. As Programs Advisor, she strengthens YSAT's capacity to mobilise resources, forge partnerships, and scale the innovations that refugee communities are already building.