Yana Peel is a British businesswoman, investor, writer and philanthropist and CEO of Intelligence Squared. Peel co-founded the Outset Contemporary Art Fund in 2003 and has positions on: Tate Executive Council, British Fashion Council, V&A, and V-A-C Foundation Moscow, Asia Art Archive and is co-chair of the Para/Site board. She is a Trustee of the Serpentine Galleries. Peel has also written a series of children's books, Art for Baby, for the NSPCC.
She is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. She is married to Stephen Peel. Yana was born in St Petersburg, Russia. She attended McGill University, completed her post-graduate studies in Economics at LSE and started her career at Goldman Sachs.
