Jasmin Arneja

Vice President of Development

Jasmin Arneja joined Global Heritage Fund in 2007 and is responsible for the overall fundraising development strategy to support organizational, project and program needs; institutional capacity building; communications; and public relations. Her programmatic and project focus are the Chinese Heritage Program and the Indus-Saraswati Heritage Centre.

Jasmin has 15 years of experience in fundraising development and executive management for arts and cultural organizations in the nonprofit sector. Prior to joining Global Heritage Fund, Jasmin served as director of development for the East Bay Zoological Society (Oakland, California), Castilleja School (Palo Alto, California), San Francisco Botanical Garden (San Francisco, California), and San Francisco Parks Trust (San Francisco, California), where she led the campaign to restore the Conservatory of Flowers, a member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Save America’s Treasures campaign. She has also served as executive director of the Chinese Historical Society in San Francisco. 

She has a B.F.A. from the University of Illinois, Chicago, and enrolled in the MBA program at DePaul University in Chicago. Jasmin is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and the Cantonese dialect.