About Us | Stewardship

ABOUT SAC

Stewardship Asia Centre is a non-profit centre established by Temasek

At SAC, we are dedicated to helping business leaders, investors and individuals activate stewardship practice through executive education, research, engagement and advisory services.

We advocate the mindset and practice of stewardship and steward leadership. We aim to enable meaningful behavioural change towards responsible value creation, and in doing so, benefit a wider community and safeguard the needs of future generations.

We believe that organisations and business leaders can create a collective better future by integrating the needs of society (people) and the environment (planet) into long-term corporate performance.

Our Purpose and Vision

Our Purpose: We champion that organisations must drive their growth strategies with a stewardship mindset.

Our Vision: To be a leading catalyst for stewardship excellence in Asia – enabling meaningful behaviour change towards more responsible value creation.

What We Advocate: Steward Leadership

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What We Do

Create awareness and capability for the practical application of good stewardship through research, education, engagement, and advisory services.

Curate a crowd-sourced content and community digital platform for stewardship.

Promote financial stewardship through the adoption of the Stewardship Principles for Responsible Investors.

Our Board

Prof Arnoud De Meyer

Chairman

Prof Arnoud De Meyer

Chairman

Arnoud De Meyer is a global academic leader with more than 35 years of experience in top international institutions in Europe and Asia. Until December 2018, he served as President of Singapore Management University (SMU). He is also an internationally recognised empirical researcher with a deep understanding of R&D and Innovation Management, Manufacturing Strategy and International Management.

Before joining SMU, Arnoud De Meyer was from 2006 until 2010 Director (Dean) of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). From 1983 until 2006, he was a faculty member at INSEAD and assumed between 1990 and 2006 several management positions e.g. that of Associate Dean of the MBA programme, Associate Dean for Executive Education, and Director of the Euro-Asia Centre. From 1998 until 2002, he was the founding Dean of INSEAD’s very successful campus in Asia (Singapore) and became then Deputy Dean for the whole of INSEAD.

Arnoud De Meyer has been an Independent Director of several companies in Belgium France, Singapore and Australia. Currently he is Independent Director of Viva Energy Pty Ltd (Australia).

A citizen of Belgium, Arnoud De Meyer graduated as an Electrical Engineer from the University of Gent (Belgium), where he also obtained a Master in Management and a Doctorate in Management. He was a visiting fellow at the MIT A.P. Sloan School and has been visiting professor at several Universities in the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium and Japan.

Chan Heng Loon Alan

Director

Chan Heng Loon Alan

Director

Mr Alan Chan was appointed Chairman of the Land Transport Authority in April 2016. He holds the appointments of Chairman of the Singapore-China Foundation and SG HSR Pte Ltd. He is also Dy Chairman of Pavilion Energy Group of Companies. He is a member of the Public Service Commission and a Board member of AUSNET, an Australian energy company.

Mr Chan retired as CEO of Singapore Press Holdings Ltd after a stint of 15 years. He had served on the boards of various Statutory Boards, listed and non-listed companies.

Before joining SPH, he was an Administrative Officer in the Civil Service. Some of his appointments included Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Transport, Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Principal Private Secretary to Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew.

He is a President's Scholar and was conferred the Public Administration Medal (Gold and Silver) and the Meritorious Service Medal for his contributions to the public service. He holds a Diplome d’Ingenieur from the Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile and MBA (with Distinction) from INSEAD.

Chan Wai Ching

Director

Chan Wai Ching

Director

Ms Chan Wai Ching joined Temasek in June 2006 and is currently Head, Organisation & People. As part of Temasek’s senior leadership team, Ms Chan oversees all of Temasek’s organisational, human capital and leadership matters. In addition, she also works with and supports the boards of Temasek’s portfolio companies in putting together high calibre boards, appropriate board remuneration framework, and management incentive plans. In this regard, she also sits on the Remuneration Committees of select portfolio companies.

Prior to Temasek, Ms Chan’s career in human resources spans 27 years, including senior appointments at Fullerton Financial Holdings, Citibank N.A., Singapore Technologies Pte Ltd, United Overseas Bank and Overseas Union Bank. Ms Chan holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the National University of Singapore, a graduate diploma in HR management and completed the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School in 2012.

Patrick Daniel

Director

Patrick Daniel

Director

Patrick has had a 3-decade career with Singapore Press Holdings (SPH). He joined SPH in October 1986 as a writer and retired in August 2018 after stints as deputy CEO and editor-in-chief. He also chaired several SPH subsidiaries, including SPH Magazines and SPH Radio.

Patrick is currently non-executive chairman of the ShareInvestor Group, after participating in a management buyout from SPH in Nov 2018. He also serves on the boards of Sembcorp Marine Ltd and EHL (Ecole Hotelier Lausanne) Singapore. He chairs Verdant.sg, his investment holding company.

Patrick graduated from University College, Oxford in 1976 with an honours degree in Engineering Sciences and Economics. He has a Master of Public Administration degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Simon Israel

Director

Simon Israel

Director

Mr Simon Israel was appointed Chairman of Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. ("SingTel") on 29 July 2011. He has been a Director on the SingTel Board since 4 July 2003. Mr Israel is also Chairman of Singapore Post Limited and a Director of Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited and Stewardship Asia Centre. He is also a Member of the Governing Board of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and the Westpac Asia Advisory Board.

Mr Israel was an Executive Director and President of Temasek Holdings (Private) Ltd. before retiring in July 2011. Prior to that, he was Chairman, Asia Pacific of the Danone Group. Mr Israel also held various positions in Sara Lee Corporation before becoming President (Household and Personal Care), Asia Pacific.

Mr Israel is the former Chairman of Asia Pacific Breweries Limited, Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation and the Singapore Tourism Board. He is also a former Director of CapitaLand Limited, Fraser and Neave Limited and Neptune Orient Lines Limited.

Mr Israel was conferred Knight in the Legion of Honour by the French government in 2007, and awarded the Public Service Medal in Singapore's 2011 National Day Awards. He holds a Diploma in Business Studies from The University of the South Pacific.

Ilian Mihov

Director

Ilian Mihov

Director

Professor Ilian Mihov was appointed Dean of INSEAD on October 1, 2013. Prior to his appointment as Dean, Professor Mihov served as Interim Dean and as Deputy Dean for Faculty and Research.

Professor Mihov joined the INSEAD economics area in 1996. He has taught macroeconomics and econometrics in the MBA, EMBA, PhD and many executive education programmes as well as in the Global Leadership Fellows Programme of the World Economic Forum. He has been nominated several times as one of the best teachers in the MBA and EMBA programmes and has won the Outstanding Teacher Award multiple times.

His research is on topics related to monetary policy, fiscal policy and economic growth. He is also a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (London, UK) and a vice president of the Asian Bureau for Finance and Economics Research (ABFER). Ilian is currently a Board Member of the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). He was a member of the Scientific Committee of the Banque de France's Research Foundation (2002-2010) and of the Advisory Board of the Bulgarian National Bank. In 2010/11 and 2011/12 he served as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Fiscal Crises.

Professor Mihov’s papers have appeared in many academic journals including the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He has given interviews for BBC, CNBC Asia, Agence France Presse, Dow Jones Newswire and many other newspapers and magazines. Professor Mihov is a regular keynote speaker, lecturer and panellist at events organised by the PwC, WEF, KPMG, Hewlett-Packard, Bloomberg, Swiss Re, Alstom, Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas and other companies.

He holds a PhD degree from Princeton University and a B.S. in business administration from the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina where, in 2006, he was recognised as a Distinguished Young Alumnus.

Our Management Team

Rajeev Peshawaria

Chief Executive Officer

Rajeev Peshawaria

Chief Executive Officer

Rajeev Peshawaria is the Chief Executive Officer of Stewardship Asia Centre (SAC). He is an out-of-the-box thought leader on leadership, management and corporate governance, with extensive global experience in leadership development and organizational consulting, as well as developing and delivering business strategy.

Prior to joining SAC, Rajeev was the CEO of the Iclif Leadership & Governance Centre based in Malaysia. With diverse experience across various industries including banking, financial services and FMCG, Rajeev has held executive roles including Chief Learning Officer at both Coca-Cola and Morgan Stanley, and senior positions at American Express, HSBC and Goldman Sachs. At Goldman, Rajeev helped found Pine Street - the firm’s acclaimed leadership academy - and headed Pine Street for Europe and Asia.

Rajeev is the author of Wall Street Journal and Amazon best sellers Open Source Leadership (McGraw Hill 2017), Too Many Bosses, Too Few Leaders (Simon & Schuster 2011), and co-author of Be the Change (McGraw Hill 2014). A sought after international speaker and a leadership consultant, Rajeev was named one of Top 100 Global Thought Leaders for Trustworthy Business by ‘Trust Across America’ in 2014 and 2017.

Rajeev graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Bombay, India, and holds an MBA from Webster University, Vienna, Austria.

Joanna Soh

Chief Operating Officer

Joanna Soh

Chief Operating Officer

Joanna is the Chief Operating Officer of Stewardship Asia Centre (SAC), a thought-leadership centre established under Temasek Trust in Singapore. The Centre fosters stewardship and governance across Asia through its research and outreach platforms.

Joanna joined SAC when the Centre started in 2014 and was initially responsible for establishing its outreach and engagement platforms, extending the partnership network across Asia-Pacific. As COO, she is also now heading the corporate and operational functions that have developed alongside the growth of the Centre and is also part of the team spearheading the executive education programmes. She is an active member and a key lead of the Steering Committee that looks after the Singapore Stewardship Principles for Responsible Investors, an initiative that helps shape positive corporate behaviour by encouraging investors to be responsible and active stewards.

Joanna has extensive events research and management experience, having worked in this field for several years across a wide range of geographies and industries, but mainly focused on family business, tech and tourism sectors. She was the Deputy Director of Conferences at Forbes Asia, developing strategic processes for organizing and managing the Forbes Global CEO Conference and other networking platforms around the region. She has also led large scale events and customer experiences for tech companies, driving projects from Singapore with global experts.

Prior to joining Stewardship Asia, Joanna was a Group Publisher for Tourism at TTG Asia Media where she was responsible for managing the advertising revenue, editorial and distribution for a portfolio of publications. She holds a BA in Media and Communications from RMIT, and specialised in film studies and history.

Ang Bee Lin

Vice President, Digital Media and Communications

Ang Bee Lin

Vice President, Digital Media and Communications

Bee Lin is the Head of Digital Media and Communications at SAC. She is an award-winning financial journalist with more than 20 years of experience in content-marketing, communications, public relations and publishing. She has co-created multiple B2B content portals and is skilled in data-driven and insightful content that builds awareness and enhances reputation.

She is adept at infusing digital publishing tools and social media technologies into content-marketing campaigns to drive publicity, readership and engagement. She has worked in Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney, Melbourne and London. She was previously a communications director at JLL and an editor at Bloomberg before starting her own content company Verba Content and co-founded ReitAsiaPac. Additionally, she has worked for Reuters and PwC and has written for, et altera, the Nikkei Asian Review, the Financial Times and Forbes Asia.

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