Mr Lawrence Wong was elected a Member of Parliament in May 2011 and was re-elected in September 2015 and July 2020. He has held positions in the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Communications and Information, the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, the Ministry of National Development, and the Ministry of Education.

Mr Wong co-chairs the Multi-Ministry Taskforce on COVID-19, and is the Deputy Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). He is also a member of the GIC Board, the Future Economy Council, the Research, Innovation and Enterprise Council and the National Research Foundation Board, and co-chairs the Singapore-Shanghai Comprehensive Cooperation Council.

He chairs the PAP Community Foundation and contributes to the labour movement as Chairman of the Singapore Labour Foundation, and Advisor to the Union of Power and Gas Employees.

Beginning his career as a civil servant, Mr Wong had worked previously as the Chief Executive of the Energy Market Authority and the Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. At the community level, he was involved in youth work in the church and voluntary organisations.

Mr Wong was educated at Tanjong Katong Secondary School and Victoria Junior College. He obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. He also holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Haslinda Amin is Chief International Correspondent for Southeast Asia and anchor for Bloomberg Television. She is also host and Executive Producer of talk show ‘High Flyers’ which is the longest-running program on Bloomberg TV.

Based in Singapore, Amin has been at the heart of market-moving news and stories that have driven the region’s transformation. She has reported on major events including the 2008 financial crisis, several elections across Asia including India and Indonesia which are among the world’s most populous, the 2016 Jakarta attacks and the 2010 bloody anti-government clashes in Thailand. Amin has also helmed Bloomberg’s coverage of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting, the World Economic Forum, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Board of Governors Meeting and the ASEAN Milken Global Summit.

Amin has interviewed a wide range of top newsmakers for Bloomberg Television, including Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew, Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo, Chief Executive of Hong Kong SAR Carrie Lam, United States Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, Former Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad and former Thai Premier Thaksin Shinawatra. Other notable interviews include Paul Volcker, Joe Biden, Mike Pompeo, Timothy Geithner and Stanley Fischer.

Amin began her career covering Southeast Asian politics more than a decade ago. She serves on the board of UN Women Singapore and has been nominated numerous times for Best Current Affairs Anchor at the Asian TV Awards. She graduated from the National University of Singapore, majoring in Political Science and English Language. She speaks Bahasa Indonesia.

Amit Bouri is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of the GIIN, where he leads the largest global community of impact investors dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing.

He dedicates his work to engaging industry leaders, institutional investors, foundations, and leading financial institutions all over the world to advocate for greater integration of social and environmental factors in all investment decisions. He also seeks to develop the tools and resources needed to effectively mobilise more capital towards impact investments.

Amit has significant experience in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors and previously held positions at Bain & Company, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and within the corporate philanthropy units of Gap Inc. and Johnson & Johnson. He holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, an MPA from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a BA in Sociology and Anthropology from Swarthmore College.

He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and their daughter, who inspire his life’s work to building a more sustainable and equitable future for all.

Mr Cheng is Group Chief Financial Officer of Sembcorp Industries. He oversees the Group’s finance, strategy, portfolio, and commercial function and brings with him extensive experience in financial and strategic leadership across the aviation, offshore oil & gas, marine engineering and logistics industries.

Prior to joining Sembcorp, Mr Cheng was Chief Corporate Officer of SATS where he oversaw key business functions such as business development, strategic investments and mergers and acquisitions (M&A), as well as corporate strategy. Mr Cheng also served as Group Chief Corporate Officer of IMC Industrial Group. He was an investment banker with J.P. Morgan and Citigroup, specialising in M&A advisory, corporate financing and capital raising.

Martina L. Cheung is President of S&P Global Market Intelligence and Head of S&P Global Sustainable1. Ms. Cheung is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York, and in 2019, was appointed to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) subcommittee on Climate-Related Market Risk.

Ms. Cheung joined S&P Global in 2010 as Vice President of Operations and went on to serve as S&P Global’s Chief Strategy Officer, where she was responsible for the execution and measurement of S&P Global’s continuing expansion of its global footprint. Most recently, she served as Head of Risk Services in S&P Global Market Intelligence. Ms. Cheung also formally served on the Board of CRISIL.

Prior to joining S&P Global, she worked in the consulting industry, first in Accenture’s Financial Services Strategy group and later as a Partner at Mitchell Madison Consulting. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Commerce and a master’s degree in Business Studies from University College Galway.

Sir Ronald Cohen is recognised as the father of impact investment and European venture capital. He is a pioneering philanthropist, venture capitalist, private equity investor, and social innovator, who is driving forward the global Impact Revolution.

He serves as Chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment, the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative at Harvard Business School, and The Portland Trust. He is a co-founder and former Executive Chairman of Apax Partners Worldwide, a global private equity firm. He is also a co-founder of Social Finance UK, USA, and Israel, co-founder Chair of Bridges Fund Management and former co-founding Chair of Big Society Capital.

Oxford and Harvard educated, Ronnie was born in Egypt and left as a refugee at the age of 11, when his family came to the UK and is now based in Tel Aviv, London and New York. He is the author of IMPACT: Reshaping capitalism to drive real change, which was published in 2020 by Penguin Random House.

Janine Guillot is Chief Executive Officer of the Value Reporting Foundation. As CEO, Janine’s priorities are to increase use of Integrated Thinking Principles, the Integrated Reporting Framework and the SASB Standards by companies and investors around the world and to advance progress towards a globally accepted comprehensive corporate reporting system. Janine was CEO of SASB before becoming CEO of the Value Reporting Foundation.

Janine has 30+ years of experience in senior leadership roles in financial services. Prior to joining SASB, Janine served as Chief Operating Investment Officer for the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS). At Barclays Global Investors, she served as Chief Operating Officer for BGI’s European and Global Fixed Income businesses. At Bank of America, she served in Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer roles for retail and commercial business units. A graduate of Southern Methodist University (SMU), Janine began her career as a technical accountant and auditor with Ernst & Young.

In recognition for her leadership at the intersection of sustainability, accounting and finance, Janine was selected as a 2020 NACD Directorship 100 Honoree and named to the 2020 Business Insider's 100 People Transforming Business list. 

David is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ABC World Asia Pte Ltd. Headquartered in Singapore, ABC World Asia is a private equity fund focusing on impact investing, with S$405m under management and backed by Temasek Trust, Temasek and Pavilion Capital. ABC World Asia is committed to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact alongside a compelling risk-adjusted financial return.

David has over 25 years of working experience in the financial industry. Prior to his appointment in ABC World Asia, he was the Joint Head of Consumer, Head of Real Estate Investment, Joint Head of China & Head of Japan & Korea at Temasek. Before joining Temasek in 2003, he was with Deutsche Bank AG as its Vice President (Telecom, Media & Technology) of Investment Banking from 2000 to 2003 and Vice President of Merger & Acquisition Advisory for Hong Kong and Singapore from 1998 to 2000. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, he was working in Standard Chartered Merchant Bank.

David holds directorships in several companies including SEA limited, Singapore Art Museum and SeaTown Holdings Pte. Ltd.

He graduated from the University of Canterbury, NZ with a Bachelor of Engineering degree. He holds a Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of Hull, UK.

Philipp Hildebrand, Vice Chairman of BlackRock, is a member of the firm’s Global Executive Committee and oversees the BlackRock Investment Institute (BII).

Mr. Hildebrand joined BlackRock in 2012. Prior to that, he served as Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank (SNB). In that capacity, he was also a Director of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the Swiss Governor of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and a member of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), of which the Leaders of the G20 appointed him Vice Chairman in 2011. He was also Chairman of the Administrative Committee of the Board of Directors of the BIS, and part of the Steering Committee and the Plenary of the Financial Stability Board (FSB). Previously, Mr. Hildebrand was Chief Investment Officer of a Swiss private bank and a partner at Moore Capital Management in London.

Mr. Hildebrand is a Trustee of the British Museum, Chair of the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, a member of the Group of Thirty and an Honorary Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. He sits on the International Leadership Council for Europe for the University of Toronto. He was awarded the Legion d’Honneur and Ordre National du Mérite by the President of France.

Mr. Hildebrand earned a BA from the University of Toronto, an MA from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford.

Ms Ho Ching is the CEO of Temasek, a long term investor headquartered in Singapore.

Ho Ching started her career with the Ministry of Defence where she last held the concurrent leadership positions of Director, Defence Materiel Organisation and Deputy Director, Defence Science Organisation.

She joined the Singapore Technologies group in 1987 as its Director of Engineering and was its President and CEO (1997 to 2001). She was the founding Chairman of Singapore Technologies Engineering.

Ho Ching joined the board of Temasek Holdings as its Executive Director in May 2002 and was appointed its CEO in January 2004.

She is a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore. Her past pro-bono roles included Chairman of the Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research, and Second Deputy Chairman of the Economic Development Board.

She holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) degree from the University of Singapore (now National University of Singapore), and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, USA.

Eric Francia is the President and CEO of ACEN Corporation and serves on its board of directors. He is also a Senior Managing Director and member of the Management Committee of Ayala Corporation.

Under his leadership, Ayala established its energy platform from a standing start in 2011, to become one of the largest renewable energy platforms in the region, with ~4,800 MW of attributable renewables capacity across Asia Pacific.

Eric has also led pioneering initiatives in early coal retirement, including the successful completion of the world’s first market-based Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM).

Eric earned a Master’s Degree in Management Studies at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, graduating with First Class Honors. He received his undergraduate degree in Humanities and Political Economy from the University of Asia & the Pacific, graduating magna cum laude.

Ruth is the Head of IFC Asset Management Company (AMC) and IFC Vice President, Equity Mobilization Division. She is responsible for the overall management and operations of the business. Since 2009, AMC has raised more than $10 billion for 13 emerging markets funds from investors including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and other development finance institutions. These funds, which have a geographic, sectoral or fund of funds mandate, allow partners to invest side by side with IFC in its investments.

Ruth joined AMC at the start of its operations, and has been involved in all aspects of the business including investment decision making, investor relations, operations management, and fundraising. She chairs the investment committees for all funds.

Before joining AMC, Ruth spent more than 20 years at Lehman Brothers, including roles in private equity, investment banking, and debt and equity capital markets. Ruth was a Managing Director and the Chief Administrative Officer of Lehman Brothers’ private equity business and a member of Lehman Brothers’ Fund of Funds Investment Committee. Before joining Lehman’s private equity business, Ruth was a senior vice president in investment banking working on strategy and business planning, a senior vice president and chief administrative officer of its Equity Research department, and a vice president of its Equity Capital Markets and Debt Capital Markets departments.

Ruth holds a BA from Barnard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School and is a member of the Boards of Barnard College and The New Museum of Contemporary Art.

Andy is an investor and entrepreneur whose Profit with Purpose philosophy has shaped various global industries. He founded LeapFrog Investments in 2007. By 2017, Fortune ranked LeapFrog as one of the top 5 Companies to Change the World, alongside Apple and Novartis.

LeapFrog’s companies now serve 221 million people in emerging Asia and Africa with healthcare or financial tools. Revenue across portfolio companies has grown on average at 26 per cent per year since investment. Global investors have committed over USD 2 billion to the group’s private equity funds.

Andy has been recognised by the Economist Group for demonstrating how "to change the way we invest as individuals, institutions and societies". He has received leadership awards from the World Economic Forum, Young Presidents Organisation, EY and other global institutions. 

Born and raised in South Africa, Andy is now an Australian. He was educated at Harvard, Cambridge and Witwatersrand Universities and holds a PhD from Cambridge. Andy has authored two books on globalisation and governance and co-authored publications with diverse leaders and Nobel laureates.

Luo Nan joined as Head of China for the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) since October 2017. She works with Chinese partners to raise the awareness of responsible investment in China and supports institutional investors to incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into the investment process. 

Before joining the PRI, Ms Luo worked with the Department of International Trade at the British Embassy in Beijing where she was Head of Institutional Infrastructure Investment, leading on attracting Chinese capital investment into UK Energy and Infrastructure projects. Prior to that position, she spent five years working in the Climate Change and Energy Section of the Embassy, focusing on green finance strategies and policy-oriented projects to address global climate change and support China’s low carbon transition. During her time with the Embassy, she has been seconded to the UK Department for International Development and the UK Green Investment Bank.

Mr. Garcia Mora is responsible for all IFC operations in the Asia and Pacific region, including operationalizing IFC’s COVID-19 crisis response, building a strong upstream pipeline rooted in country strategies and fostering more collaboration opportunities with a range of key stakeholders for broader impact.

Previously, he was the Global Director for the Finance Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice at the World Bank Group (WBG) where he led WBG’s work on financial stability and integrity; financial infrastructure, inclusion and access; long-term finance and capital markets; and crisis and disaster risk finance across all regions.

Since joining WBG in 2013, Mr. Garcia Mora has led different regional responsibilities as Manager and Director, advising governments, supervisors and regulators on projects related to financial-sector development, access to finance, banking crises, capital markets and financial regulation. He also worked in the private sector for over 12 years, including as Partner-Managing Director at Analistas Financieros Internacionales Consulting Group.

Mr. Garcia Mora holds a PhD in Economics from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and a Master of Finance from the Catholic University of Leuven. He also served as a visiting PhD student at Boston University.

Kyung-Ah is Chief Sustainability Officer at Temasek. She is responsible for integrating ESG across Temasek’s global portfolio working with teams on portfolio company engagement and ESG investments. She also oversees the firm’s sustainability strategy to advance net zero, nature positive, and inclusive growth.

Kyung-Ah has over two decades of experience in the finance industry, majority of which was dedicated to building and leading the global environmental markets initiatives at Goldman Sachs and advancing innovative finance solutions to address climate change. She was most recently the head of Environmental Markets and Innovation and a member of the Sustainable Finance Steering Group. She joined Goldman Sachs in Mergers & Acquisitions and worked in investment banking in New York and Hong Kong. Prior to Goldman Sachs, she was a management consultant at McKinsey in South Korea and South Africa.

Kyung-Ah has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Yonsei University in Korea. She serves on the boards of ClimateWorks Foundation and Resources for the Future and is an advisory member for NYU’s Center for Sustainable Business. She is also a board director of Clifford Capital Holdings.

Ms Png Chin Yee joined Temasek in July 2011 and is currently Chief Financial Officer. Her prior roles in Temasek include Head, Financial Services, Senior Managing Director, China and Senior Managing Director, Portfolio Strategy and Risk Group.

Prior to joining Temasek, Ms Png was Managing Director with UBS AG where she was Joint Head of the Financial Institutions Group in the Investment Bank for Asia.  

Ms Png holds a Bachelor of Accountancy with 1^st class honours from the Nanyang Technological University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Henry Paulson is the Founder and Chairman of the Paulson Institute. He is also Executive Chairman of TPG Rise Climate, the climate investing platform of the global private equity firm TPG. Paulson is the Co-chair of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, and Co-chair of the Bloomberg New Economy Forum Advisory Board. Paulson served as the 74th Secretary of the Treasury from July 2006 to January 2009. Prior to that, he had a thirty-two year career at Goldman Sachs, ultimately serving as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

A lifelong conservationist, Paulson was Chairman of The Nature Conservancy Board of Directors and, prior to that, founded and co-chaired the organisation’s Asia-Pacific Council. In 2011, he founded the Latin American Conservation Council. He also co-chaired the Risky Business Project from 2013 to 2017, a non-partisan initiative that quantified and publicised the economic risks of climate change in the United States. 

Rohit Sipahimalani joined Temasek in 2008 as Head of Telecommunications, Media & Technology. In 2012, he was appointed Co-Chief Investment Officer and has since held various roles across the organisation before being appointed to his current position. 

Prior to joining Temasek, Rohit spent 11 years with Morgan Stanley holding senior positions across its Mumbai and Hong Kong offices before his appointment as Managing Director & Head of South East Asia Investment Banking in Singapore.

Rohit started his career with Citibank, India and McKinsey & Co in India.

Jennifer Tay leads the PwC Singapore Infrastructure Advisory Practice and is a Partner in the firm’s Deals Advisory Practice. She has close to 20 years of experience in infrastructure – particularly in large scale financial transactions and strategic advisory, supporting both public and private sectors across Asia. Jennifer’s sectors expertise includes transportation, power & energy, and telecommunications. ​

Jennifer has worked in large infrastructure companies in Singapore (in power, transport and telecommunications sectors) where she focused on strategic and financial planning, acquisitions, divestment, bond issues and IPO. ​More recently, Jennifer has advised on the development of the 60MWp floating solar project in Singapore and an M&A transaction involving regional renewable platforms and greenfield renewable transactions in the region. ​

Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (First Class Honours) from the National University of Singapore. ​

Benoit Valentin joined Temasek International (Europe) Limited in 2014 as a Senior Managing Director. He is currently Deputy Head of EMEA, Global Head of Private Equity Fund Investments and Global Head of Impact Investing.

Prior to this, Mr. Valentin was a Partner at Cinven, a European private equity fund, for eight years. He worked at Goldman Sachs in Europe and Asia for 12 years, including a position as Managing Director for GS Capital Partners, the private equity arm of Goldman Sachs. Earlier positions include Analyst at Clinvest (Credit Lyonnais' mergers & acquisitions arm) and First Lieutenant in the French navy.

Mr. Valentin holds an MSc in Business from HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris), France.

Mr John J. Vaske joined Temasek in January 2017 as Senior Managing Director. He is currently Head, Americas and Head, Agribusiness.

Previously, Mr Vaske was Co-chairman of Global M&A in the investment banking division at Goldman Sachs where he spent his entire career prior to Temasek.  Mr Vaske joined Goldman Sachs in 1988 as an Analyst with the M&A team in New York. He relocated to Tokyo from 1989 to 1991 to help start the M&A practice before returning to New York.

He relocated to London in 2005 to lead the European Natural Resources Group. In March 2010, Mr Vaske returned to New York as Co-head of the Natural Resources Group ultimately becoming Co-chairman.  Mr Vaske moved into his last role as Co-chairman of Global M&A in 2015.

Mr Vaske is currently Chairman of the Board of PeacePlayers International, a member of the Board of Bottom Line New York and member of the Athletic Leadership Committee of Columbia University.

Mr Vaske graduated from Columbia University in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics.

Stephanie von Friedeburg is International Finance Corporation (IFC)’s first Senior Vice President, Operations. She stewarded the institution during the Covid-19 pandemic and led the implementation of IFC’s strategy to create projects, attract private investment, and support a resilient, inclusive recovery in emerging markets. She currently leads IFC’s investment operations and advisory services and manages IFC’s USD 60 billion debt and equity portfolio in more than 100 countries. Her priorities include increasing opportunities for women, scaling up investments to fight climate change, and promoting digital development. Her career spans three decades at the World Bank Group.

She started at IFC, where she also served as the first Chief Operating Officer, and spent more than two decades in investment operations. In addition to an MBA from the Wharton School, she holds a Master of Arts from the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania and an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University.

Emily Woodland, CFA, Managing Director, joined BlackRock in April 2021 as the firm's APAC Co-head of Sustainable Investing. Her team oversees the strategy and implementation of BlackRock’s sustainable offerings across the APAC region.

Emily previously served as the Head of Sustainable Investment at AMP Capital, and prior to that as Investment Advisor for Asia Debt Management’s sustainable investment programmes. Her sustainability expertise is grounded in over 16 years of investment experience with UBS dating back to 2000, where she started in equity and convertible bond trading, served as a portfolio manager with the firm’s Fundamental Investment Group, and as a portfolio manager with the long/short absolute return hedge fund portfolio in UBS Asset Management.

Emily has a Bachelor's Degree in Financial & Business Economics from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and a Masters Degree in Corporate Environmental Governance from the University of Hong Kong.