Government Chief Sustainability Officer, Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment
Mr Lim Tuang Liang is the Government Chief Sustainability Officer and Deputy Secretary (Special Duties) at Singapore’s Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment.
In his role as GCSO, Tuang Liang coordinates the Singapore Government’s sustainability efforts to advance a sustainable, resource-efficient and climateresilient Singapore. He also oversees initiatives to reduce the public sector’s environmental footprint, build sustainability capabilities among officers, and support community-led projects that drive greater awareness and action on sustainability.
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Mr Eric Lim is Managing Director and the Chief Sustainability Officer at United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB). His role is to drive UOB’s sustainability strategy and objectives of helping businesses and individuals transition to a sustainable future and fostering social and environmental well-being among colleagues and communities.
Eric was also the Head of Group Finance from 2013 to 2022, where he was responsible for the Bank’s core finance functions spanning financial strategy, capital management, regulatory and financial reporting, tax management, business finance and performance management.
Eric holds positions in key UOB management committees, including Chairperson of the Group Sustainability Committee. He is also a member of the Management Committee and holds directorships in UOB affiliated companies.
Prior to joining UOB, Eric was Managing Director and Head of Wholesale Banking Finance, Singapore and Southeast Asia for Standard Chartered Bank, responsible for driving the strategic partnership between the wholesale business and finance teams. During this time, Eric led the finance functions covering commercial banking, financial markets and investment banking.
Mr Eric Lim
Chief Sustainability Officer, United Overseas Bank
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Eric began his career with GE Capital where he took on various executive positions in the areas of financial planning and analysis, mergers and acquisitions, audit and controllership. He lived and worked in more than 20 countries, with particular focus in the USA and Japan during that time.
Eric holds a Bachelor of Accountancy from the Nanyang Technological University and an Executive Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.
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Mr Frank Phuan
Vice Chairman, SCCCI Sustainability Committee
Co-Chairman, Sustainability Alliance
Mr Frank Phuan is a dynamic leader with over 30 years of experience in renewable energy. He founded Equator Renewables Asia to advance clean energy solutions, following his tenure as Business CEO of EDP Renewables APAC, where he oversaw regional operations post the S$1.1 billion acquisition of Sunseap.
A second-generation entrepreneur, Frank grew Sunseap from a five-person operation in Singapore into a leading Asia-Pacific renewable energy company. He led numerous large-scale solar power purchase agreement projects and played a key role in engineering solutions that reduced the levelised cost of solar energy. These efforts delivered Sunseap Group’s first 10 MegaWattpeak solar power purchase pgreement project, laying the foundation for a portfolio exceeding 1.2GWp.
As Co-Chairman of the Sustainability Alliance programme office supported by Enterprise Singapore and comprising 21 trade associations representing over 76,000 enterprises; Frank champions sustainability adoption and the Green100 national movement.
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He also serves as Vice Chairman of the Sustainability Committee at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Vice President of the Singapore Energy Association, and a Board Member of SGInnovate. His contributions to Singapore’s photovoltaic industry have earned him the Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award, the Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and the PVSEC Special Award.
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Ms Fang Eu-Lin
Sustainability & Climate Change Practice Leader, PwC Singapore
Ms Fang Eu-Lin leads the Sustainability & Climate Change practice across PwC Singapore. She drives the PwC Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainability Excellence based in Singapore, and is a member of the global sustainability leadership teams at PwC. She is also the Asia Pacific Sustainable Finance, Sustainability Reporting and Sustainability Risk Leader. Prior to assuming the Sustainability & Climate Change practice head role at PwC Singapore in 2016, she was a financial services specialist partner.
Eu-Lin graduated with a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School. As a practicing Singapore Chartered Accountant, she believes that accountants can play an important role in fighting climate change and advancing sustainability in business and in the community.
She serves on various boards and committees, including those of including the National Environment Agency, National Institute of Early Childhood Education, United Nations Global Compact Singapore, where she contributes in areas of the audit committee, risk committee and sustainability.
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Eu-Lin is the Co-Chairman of the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment's SG Eco Fund and serves on the Monetary Authority of Singapore Corporate Governance Advisory Committee.
She served as the Chairman of the Sustainability Committee at the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants, where she contributed to capacity building, technical review of sustainability reporting standards and engaging the accounting community on emerging sustainability issues.
She has also served on the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA)-Singapore Exchange (SGX) RegCo Sustainability Reporting Advisory Committee. She is currently serving on the ACRA Interim Sustainability Reporting Standards Committee.
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Mr Bennett Neo is the Group Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Mandai Park Holdings, overseeing the Mandai Wildlife Group’s strategy, operations and long-term precinct development. He brings over 30 years of global leadership experience across the FMCG, energy, offshore marine, logistics and supply chain sectors.
Before joining Mandai, he served as Chief Operating Officer of Sembcorp Industries, and earlier as CEO of SABECO, Vietnam’s largest beverage group, where he transformed the former state-owned enterprise into a modern, professionally-run organisation overseeing 44 subsidiaries and 13,000 employees. He has also held senior roles with YCH Group, Fraser & Neave, EMAS Offshore, and spent 15 years with Asia Pacific Breweries/Heineken across Asia and Europe.
Bennett began his career with ExxonMobil, holding regional and global leadership posts. A former national athlete, he represented Singapore in canoeing at the Asian Games and Asian Canoe Championships, and was a multiple-time national champion and coach.
Mr Bennett Neo
Group CEO, Mandai Wildlife Group
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Assistant Vice President–Sustainable Solutions, Mandai Wildlife Group
Bernard Cheung is an Assistant Vice President in Mandai Wildlife Group’s Sustainable Solutions team, where he leads resource efficiency, decarbonisation strategy and sustainability governance across the organisation. He drives enterprise-wide alignment with corporate priorities, stakeholder expectations and leading international sustainability standards.
At Mandai, Bernard integrates sustainability into core business operations across the 126-hectare precinct. He leads the Group’s decarbonisation efforts, including solar deployment across the precinct, delivering measurable business benefits such as cost savings while strengthening resilience to risks from climate change.
In addition, Bernard leads Mandai’s sustainability certifications efforts, such as the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC), leveraging these credentials to position Mandai as a leading sustainable destination and create competitive business advantage.
Mr Bernard Cheung
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He believes in working with business partners to co-develop and deploy practical sustainability solutions that deliver shared value. This includes implementing electric bus charging infrastructure designed to overcome onsite challenges, enabling operational efficiency while advancing sustainability capabilities across the ecosystem.
Bernard is passionate about demonstrating how sustainability can be operationalised to support long-term business growth and resilience.
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Mr Henry Haijian He
CFO, Baidu Inc
Chairman of the Board
iQIYI Inc
Mr Henry Haijian He has served as chief financial officer of Baidu and the chairman of theboard of directors of iQIYI, Inc. since July 2025. He joined Baidu from Kingsoft Cloud Holdings Limited (Affiliated to Xiaomi Group, hereinafter referred to as Kingsoft Cloud) where he served as executive director and chief financial officer since January 2020.
Prior to joining Kingsoft Cloud, Henry served as an executive director of the TMT (telecommunications, media and technology) group and the mergers and acquisitions group sequentially at Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C. from September 2015 to January 2020. He has extensive experience in complex merger and acquisition transactions and headed Asia M&A department at Goldman Sachs. Prior to that, Henry worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. successively from 2010 to 2015.
Henry currently serves as an independent non-executive director of Sipai Health Technology Co., Ltd. and Sunwoda EVB Co., Ltd.
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Henry received his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in electronic engineering from Southeast University and an MBA from University of Chicago, and completed Advanced Management Program (AMP) at Harvard Business School. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst charter holder.
Henry is frequently interviewed by leading media outlets, including Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Bloomberg, CNBC and China Daily. He is also recognised as one of “The Best CFOs in Asia” by Institutional Investor as well as one of “The CFOs of the Year of Public Chinese Company across US and Hong Kong Stock Exchange” by Wall Street Journal Barron’s.
Outside of work, Henry had participated in the Netflix Award, a global A.I. algorithm contest, where his team "The Ensemble," tied for first place for its movie precision recommendation algorithm. He is also the owner of two US financial model algorithm patents. In addition, He is a music ambassador at the Carnegie Hall in New York, a clarinet player, circuit and drift racing driver.
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Mr Foo Jixun is a senior managing partner at Granite Asia. He leads the firm’s overall investment strategy and portfolio management.
Jixun has spent the last 20 years working with entrepreneurs in the mobility, transportation, and enterprise services sectors in Asia. He is best known for his early investments into companies like Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU), Grab, Xpeng Motors (NYSE: XPEV) and his critical roles in strategic mergers and acquisitions, such as those of Youku-Tudou (the first ever multi-billiondollar tech merger in China), Baidu-Qunar, Ctrip-Qunar, and Manbang (Yunmanman-Huachebang). His portfolio includes 23 companies valued at more than $1 billion each.
Jixun was previously a Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) ePlanet Ventures, where he led investment efforts in Asian companies such as Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU). Prior to DFJ ePlanet, Jixun headed up the Investment Group under the Finance & Investment Division of the National Science & Technology Board of Singapore (NSTB) and was previously an R&D project group leader at Hewlett Packard.
Mr Foo Jixun
Senior Managing Partner, Granite Asia
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Born and raised in Singapore, Jixun is highly respected in the Asia business community and serves on the board of PSA International (Singapore). He has been named as one of the Top 10 Venture Capitalists by Zero2IPO as well as “VC Professional of the Year” by the Asia Venture Capital Journal. He frequently appears on the global Forbes Midas list, including 2019-2025, and was recognised among the Top 100 Venture Capitalists by The New York Times's CBInsights in 2019.
Jixun is an alumnus of the National University of Singapore. He obtained a First-Class Honours in Engineering and later, earned an M.Sc. in Management of Technology from the esteemed Graduate School of Business.
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Mr Richard Eu
Mr Richard Eu has been Non-Executive Chairman of Eu Yan Sang International (EYSI) since 2017. In his more than 30-year career with EYSI, he has been instrumental in transforming EYSI into one of Asia’s largest consumer healthcare groups based on Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Besides EYSI, Richard sits on the boards of both listed and unlisted companies, as well as in non-profit organisations. Richard was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 (Singapore) and recognised as the CEO of the year by the Singapore Corporate Awards 2010. He was conferred the Public Service Medal (PBM) at the Singapore National Day Awards 2020.
Richard holds a LLB degree from the University of London.
Chairperson, Eu Yan Sang
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Ms Chin Wei Jia is the Executive Director and Group CEO of HMI Medical, a leading integrated healthcare group in Southeast Asia. Since joining in 2002, she has held various senior leadership positions, including Group General Manager and CEO of Regency Specialist Hospital in Malaysia. Appointed Group CEO in 2015, Wei Jia has led HMI Medical through a defining decade of digital transformation, capability building and strategic expansion.
Under her leadership, HMI Medical has broadened its ecosystem through organic growth and mergers and acquisitions, strengthening its service portfolio across primary care, telemedicine, diagnostics, ambulatory and specialty care, tertiary hospitals, healthcare training, and corporate health administration. The Group also introduced next-generation innovations such as AI-enabled diagnostics, smart wards and robotic-assisted surgery, while expanding centres of excellence and preventive care programs. Today, HMI Medical serves over 3 million lives annually across its digital and physical platforms.
Wei Jia is actively involved in shaping the broader business and digital landscape and was named EY Entrepreneur of the Year Singapore in 2025.
Ms Chin Wei Jia
Group CEO, HMI Medical
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She currently serves as a Board Member of the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA). She is also a Council Member of the Singapore Business Federation (SBF) and an active Member of the Malaysia-Singapore Business Council and the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry’s (SCCCI) Career Women’s Group Committee. She previously served as a Member of the Public Guardian Advisory Committee and Board Member of Enterprise Singapore (ESG).
Wei Jia holds a Bachelor of Arts (summa cum laude) in Economics and International Relations from Boston University, and a Master of Arts in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University.
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Ms Carolyn Choo CEO & Managing Director, Worldwide Hotels
Carolyn Choo is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Worldwide Hotels (WWH), Singapore’s largest homegrown hotel group, overseeing 41 hotels across seven brands with over 8,600 rooms, representing more than 10% of Singapore’s hotel room supply.
Since joining the business in 2002 during the SARS crisis, she has led WWH’s transformation and regional expansion into strategic gateway cities in key tourism growth markets, Australia, Malaysia, Japan, South Korea and Thailand, growing its overseas portfolio to 11 hotels with over 2,500 rooms.
Carolyn spearheaded key milestones, including the S$525 million acquisition of Novotel Singapore on Kitchener and the launch of Mercure ICON Singapore City Centre, where she pioneered WWH's “lean luxury” concept. Under her leadership, seven WWH hotels achieved GSTC certification, advancing the Group’s sustainability agenda.
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Carolyn is a Chartered Accountant (CA), Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), and a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Owner/President Management (OPM) programme.
She has received numerous awards and recognition, including the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Award 2025 – Hospitality Services and the Nanyang Alumni Achievement Award 2025. She was also named one of Forbes Asia’s Power Businesswomen in 2023, and Tatler Most Influential 2025.
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Mr Gallant Tang is the Group Chief Executive Officer of SingHaiyi Group and Tang Organization, where he leads the group’s strategic direction, operations, and investment activities across real estate, hospitality, and education verticals.
Gallant works closely with all stakeholders to deliver high-quality, liveable developments while advancing productivity, innovation, and long-term sustainability across the built environment sector. Under his leadership, SingHaiyi operates with a clear belief: real estate is not about buildings; it is about outcomes for people and society.
In addition to his executive role, Gallant serves on the boards of Global Resources Construction Ltd., a SGX mainboard listed construction firm; Aesen Pte. Ltd., an offshore marine services company.; and Suntec Real Estate Services Pte. Ltd., an asset management company. There he contributes to governance, strategic oversight, and cross-sector collaboration.
Mr Gallant Tang
Group CEO, SingHayi
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Gallant is also a member of the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) Action Team’s Sub-committee for Enterprise Transformation which drives firm-level transformation, strengthen sector capabilities, and accelerate the adoption of productive technologies and progressive construction methods to improve cost, time, and manpower outcomes.
Gallant holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Business Management and Computer Science from the University of British Columbia.
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Mr Kuok Meng Xiong
Founder, K3 Ventures
Managing Director, Kuok Brothers Sdn Bhd
Kuok Meng Xiong (MX) serves as Managing Director of Kuok Brothers Sdn Bhd and as Alternate Director to the Chairman of Kuok Group Singapore, where he contributes to the stewardship of the Group’s businesses spanning agribusiness, hospitality, media and investments.
MX is the Founder of K3, ASEAN based investment firm backing categorydefining technology companies. Since establishing the firm, he has partnered with founders across Southeast Asia, China, and the United States, with a portfolio of more than 130 companies including Grab, Palantir, SpaceX and ByteDance.
He began his career at Wilmar in 2009 and subsequently spent sixteen years with the Shangri-La Group, where he served as Head of Development, and later held Managing Director roles across multiple markets, including China, Hong Kong, Mongolia and Sri Lanka.
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MX serves on the board of PPB Group Berhad (as Group Managing Directordesignate), Tuya, the Malaysia-China Business Council, the Anglo-Chinese Schools Foundation, and OceanX Education.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University and maintains an FAA Commercial Pilot Licence.
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Professor Emeritus of Finance (Practice), Singapore Management University
Annie is Professor Emeritus of Finance (Practice) at Singapore Management University’s (SMU) Lee Kong Chian School of Business. A sought-after conference speaker, moderator, and commentator, she chaired the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Asian Bond Fund 2 supervisory committee from 2005 to 2023 and currently serves on the Singapore Food Agency board.
She is an independent director of AMTD IDEA Group, Mewah International, Prudential Assurance Company Singapore, and Yoma Strategic Holdings, and sits on boards supporting WWF (Singapore) and the EtonHouse Community Fund. Professor Koh also advises selected family offices and enterprises, serves on iGlobe Partners’ investment committee, and has held senior leadership roles at SMU.
A Fulbright scholar with a Ph.D. in International Finance from NYU Stern, her research focuses on family office and family business, investor behavior, alternative investments, and enterprise risk, and she has authored and edited several books and cases, earning multiple national and sector awards for her contributions
