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Although technological advancements have led to life-changing innovation in recent years, the first two decades of the 21st century have already witnessed two global recessions, socio-political strife, severe resource/income inequality, and massive environmental degradation. We live in times where exciting growth opportunities coexist with existential threats to current and future generations.

Can businesses fully exploit the growth opportunities and sustain their success without addressing the challenges? Will traditional models of leadership, management and governance be adequate to ensure long-term profitability and growth in an increasingly connected and transparent world? As some companies have learned the hard way recently, the answer to both questions is a BIG NO. In today’s brave new world, we need brave new thinking that creates a WIN-WIN-WIN scenario wherein individuals, organisations, and humanity at large can thrive together. In short, we need a whole new model. One that embraces steward leadership.

Due to the overwhelming response to the programme, we regret to inform you that the registration is now closed. To stay updated on future programme runs, please email execedu@stewardshipasia.com.sg.

Introducing the Stewardship Advantage

Innovation doesn’t have to come at the expense of the environment. Sustainable business practices can help you serve your consumer and bolster profits. Steward leaders can enable a WIN-WIN-WIN scenario in which individuals, organisations and humanity thrive together. SAC's CEO Rajeev Peshawaria introduces the Stewardship Advantage programme.

Learning Objectives

A highly interactive developmental experience for aspiring steward leaders who want to create a better world and thrive personally at the same time. As a result of attending this programme, participants will be better able to:

  • Understand how the world has changed in recent years because of massive shifts in both technological and societal norms
  • Practice steward leadership to drive inclusive WIN-WIN-WIN prosperity
  • Apply a stewardship-based governance model to drive sustainable growth
  • Increase innovation by applying a stewardship approach 
  • Explore the challenges and opportunities of responsible use of data in an AI-driven ecosystem
  • Recognise the current direction and future capital flow trends in sustainable finance

 

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Programme Director

Mr Rajeev Peshawaria
CEO, Stewardship Asia Centre

Mr Peshawaria is an out-of-the-box thought leader on leadership, management and corporate governance, with extensive global experience in leadership development and organisational consulting, as well as developing and delivering business strategy. Prior to joining SAC he was the CEO of the Iclif Leadership and Governance Centre based in Malaysia. With diverse experience across various industries including banking, financial services and FMCG, he 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, he helped found Pine Street — the firm’s acclaimed leadership academy — and headed the initiative for Europe and Asia.

Mr Peshawaria is the author of Wall Street Journal and Amazon bestsellers “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, Mr Peshawaria was named one of the Top 100 Global Thought Leaders for Trustworthy Business by ‘Trust Across America’ in 2014 and 2017.

Programme Faculty

Prof Arnoud De Meyer
Chairman, Stewardship Asia Centre
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Prof Arnoud De Meyer
Chairman, Stewardship Asia Centre

Professor Arnoud De Meyer is a global academic leader with more than 35 years of experience in top academic institutions in Europe and Asia. Until December 2018, he served as President of Singapore Management University (SMU), where he is now University Professor. Before joining SMU, Prof De Meyer was from 2006 until 2010 Director (Dean) of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. From 1983 until 2006, he was a faculty member at INSEAD and assumed several management positions, among others as founding dean of INSEAD’s Asia campus in Singapore. He has additionally been an Independent Director of various international companies and is currently Independent Director of Viva Energy Pty Ltd and Banyan Tree Holdings Limited.

Prof De Meyer is an internationally recognised researcher in the areas of Research & Development and Innovation Management, Manufacturing Strategy and International Management. He has published more than 100 academic articles and 12 books. In 2020, his most recent book “Ecosystem Edge: Sustaining Competitiveness in the Face of Disruption” was published with Stanford Business Press.

Annisah Smith
Research and Advocacy Manager, Stewardship Asia Centre
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Annisah Smith
Research and Advocacy Manager, Stewardship Asia Centre

Annisah Smith is Research and Advocacy Manager at Stewardship Asia Centre (SAC), where she helps lead and develop sustainability-related engagements and content. With a background in environmental policy and sustainable agriculture, she brings experience in conducting sustainable development research, preparing due diligence and policy analyses, and building public-private partnerships.

Before joining SAC, Annisah was based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, as a Fulbright Research Scholar. She examined the inextricable challenges linked to sustainable and equitable palm oil development in Southeast Asia and Latin America. Her research interests have further explored the nexus between environmental governance and private sector engagement, and has enabled her to work and live in the US, Costa Rica, Indonesia, and now Singapore.

Annisah is a graduate of American University’s School of International Service, where she pursued a BA in International Relations and an MA in Global Environmental Policy.

Prof Dave Fernandez
Professor of Finance (Practice) & Director, Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics, SMU
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Prof Dave Fernandez
Professor of Finance (Practice) & Director, Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics, SMU

Professor Dave Fernandez is the Director of the Sim Kee Boon Institute (SKBI) for Financial Economics and Professor of the Practice of Finance at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University (SMU). He is also the Co-Director of the Singapore Green Finance Centre which is jointly run by SKBI and Imperial College London’s Centre for Climate Finance & Investment. Outside of SMU, he was recently appointed chair of the Advisory Panel at the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office.

Prior to returning to academia in 2018, Prof Dave worked as an economist in the private sector at Barclays and J.P. Morgan. He started his career in the public sector, serving as an economist in the administration of President George H.W. Bush and at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Outside of his activities as an economist, he sits on the board of EMpower, a global philanthropy focused on at-risk youth in emerging market countries. He is also a member of Phillips Exeter Academy’s Asia Council and the Exco of the Princeton Alumni Association of Singapore.

Prof Mark Findlay
Professorial Research Fellow & Director, Centre for AI and Data Governance, SMU
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Prof Mark Findlay
Professorial Research Fellow & Director, Centre for AI and Data Governance, SMU

Professor Mark Findlay is a Professor of Law at Singapore Management University and Director of its Centre for AI and Data Governance, where he is a Professorial Research Fellow. In addition, he has honorary Chairs at the Australian National University, the University of Edinburgh and the University of New South Wales. He is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the British Institute for International and Comparative Law and an Honorary Fellow of the Law School, University of Edinburgh. 

Professor Findlay is the author of 29 monographs and collections and over 150 refereed articles and book chapters.  He has held Chairs in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, England and Ireland. For over 20 years he was at the University of Sydney as the Chair in Criminal Justice and the Director of the Institute of Criminology. His most recent publications include: ‘Globalisation, Populism, Pandemics and the Law: The Anarchy and the Ecstasy’, ‘Law’s regulatory relevance? Property, power and market economies’, and ‘Principled International Criminal Justice: Lessons from Tort Law’. 

Currently, he is working on COVID-19 regulatory issues, trust in AI regulation and governance, smart cities and surveillance/mass data sharing, and law and change. More material by Professor Findlay is available on the CAIDG website. 

Willow Wong
Research Associate, Centre for AI and Data Governance, SMU
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Willow Wong
Research Associate, Centre for AI and Data Governance, SMU

Willow Wong is Research Associate at the Centre for AI and Data Governance, Singapore Management University. She first joined the research centre in October 2020 under the SGUnited Traineeship programme, where she pursued her research interests in moral philosophy, metaethics and the philosophy of technology. Prior to SMU, Willow was the elected Vice President (Welfare and Diversity) and Board of Trustees Member for two years at Royal Holloway Students’ Union, where she was responsible for campaigning and lobbying for high-level policy changes around student wellbeing and diversity issues at Royal Holloway, University of London. 

In 2019, she was the elected student representative on the College Council, the governing body of Royal Holloway, where she contributed to the institution's equality, diversity, and widening the participation agenda. Willow has a first-class degree in BA English and Philosophy (Joint Hons) and received the Edmée Manning Award (2020) for best academic performance in the graduating cohort of the English department at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Dr Rajiv Lall
Professorial Research Fellow, Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics, SMU
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Dr Rajiv Lall
Professorial Research Fellow, Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics, SMU

Dr Rajiv Lall is a Professorial Research Fellow at the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics and sits on the Singapore Green Finance Centre’s Management Committee. He has been active in the finance and policy landscape as an economist and business leader for over 35 years. Dr Lall was Founder MD & CEO of IDFC Bank, and prior to that was CEO and then Executive Chairman of IDFC Limited.  

Beyond the world of banking, Dr Lall is also involved in public policy and has served on numerous committees of the Government of India and the Reserve Bank of India. Outside of India, he serves on the Steering Group of SDG Impact and is a member of the City of London’s Advisory Council for India and the board of the US-India Business Council. 

Dr Lall earned his BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University and holds a PhD in Economics from Columbia University.

Business Speakers

Abel Ang
Group Chief Executive Officer of Advanced MedTech Holdings
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Abel Ang
Group Chief Executive Officer of Advanced MedTech Holdings
Mr Abel Ang is the Group Chief Executive Officer of Advanced MedTech Holdings, a US$300M global player in Urology devices and services. The group has quadrupled its revenue since its founding. Mr Ang has a proven track record in the medical device sector. He has served as Senior Advisor to the CEO of Greatbatch Inc (NYSE: ITGR), providing guidance relative to the commercialization of medical device technologies in the cardiac, neurology, vascular and orthopaedic markets.

Prior to Greatbatch, Mr Ang was President, Asia/Pacific for Hill-Rom Inc. a US$3B revenue medical devices company (acquired by NYSE: BAX) where he was responsible for leading, developing and implementing the strategy to expand Hill-Rom’s presence in Asia/Pacific markets. He formerly served as the Chief Technology Officer for Hill-Rom for 3 years. In that role, he was responsible for Hill-Rom’s global R&D operations distributed across sites in the US, Mexico, France and Singapore. At Hill-Rom, he also held the positions of Vice-President and General Manager of Hill-Rom’s US$420M Global Surfaces and Therapy Business unit, and Vice-President for International Business Development. He formerly headed the global Medical Technology and Biotechnology industry groups in the Singapore Economic Development Board’s (EDB) Biomedical Division.

Mr Ang sits on the Board of Economic Development Innovations Singapore, a privately-held company headquartered in Singapore. With expertise honed in conceiving and managing townships in India, Vietnam, China and Indonesia, EDIS’ core business is in investing, managing and developing integrated cities globally. In addition, he sits on the Boards of the following operating and investment companies: Dornier MedTech, AMT Pte Ltd and SonoMotion. He chairs the Board of AWAK Technologies, which is developing a novel peritoneal dialysis device. He was formerly on the Board and Nominating Committee of Aslan Pharmaceuticals (NYSE: ASLN). Mr Ang is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Nanyang Business School in Singapore and Waseda University in Japan, where he teaches in their respective MBA programs. Mr Ang has a Master of Science in Computational Biology from Rutgers University in New Jersey, which he pursued while on an EDB scholarship. He attended Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program in 2012. He was awarded the Public Service Medal (PBM) in 2021 for his contributions to the medical device industry in Singapore.

Karan Capoor
Former Senior Energy Specialist, World Bank; Founder and CEO, The Krysalis Company
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Karan Capoor
Former Senior Energy Specialist, World Bank; Founder and CEO, The Krysalis Company
Karan Capoor is a Former Senior Energy Specialist for the World Bank and the founder and CEO of The Krysalis Company, a Washington DC-based firm that advises organisations such as multilateral institutions, corporations and NGOs to innovate and create impact in sustainability, climate change and carbon markets. He was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in 2017 in recognition of his over twenty-five years of leadership in climate change, clean energy and sustainability. During his fellowship, he observed growing market demand for sustainability services amid stronger scientific evidence of climate change and a groundswell of stakeholder calls for accountability. This subsequently led to the establishment of The Krysalis Company.

Karan worked for over a decade as a senior staffer at the World Bank, where he led the Energy Climate Finance team. He was a key member of the team that pioneered the world’s first dedicated carbon fund, the Prototype Carbon Facility, and is widely known as the founder and lead author of ‘State & Trends of the Carbon Market(s),’ a market intelligence report. He led innovative joint World Bank Group operations with the IFC and MIGA to mobilise commercial financing for clean energy transactions through public-private partnerships. Karan started his career working in climate change policy at the Environmental Defense Fund in 1992, focusing on intergovernmental climate change negotiations. He was subsequently recruited by PWC in 1997 to launch and run the firm’s global climate change risk management and strategy consulting business. He also developed clean energy projects in the US and overseas with EnergyWorks, a start-up joint venture of Bechtel and PacifiCorp. 

Karan earned an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business and an AB from Middlebury College. Karan, an avid collector of contemporary art from India, lives in Washington DC.

Krista Baetens
Executive, National Australia Bank, Asia; Member of the Corporate & Institutional Banking Leadership Team
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Krista Baetens
Executive, National Australia Bank, Asia; Member of the Corporate & Institutional Banking Leadership Team

Krista is an experienced global business leader in banking with an international track record of running, growing, and fixing local and global businesses in Asia Pacific, Europe and the US. She has a deep sector and product knowledge across wholesale and retail banking anchored in her 25-year international experience with NAB and ING.

Krista is currently the Executive for Asia of C&IB National Australia Bank. In this role, she is responsible for all NAB activities in Asia. She joined NAB in January 2021. Until December 2020, Krista was the CEO of Wholesale Banking Asia Pacific. She was also a non-executive non-independent director of ING Australia. Prior to that, she was CRO and Executive Board Member of ING Belgium SA. 

Krista was most recently awarded the title of Fellow of the Hogenheuvelcollege of the Catholic University of Leuven. She is a recipient of ING’s global Engaging Leadership Award and a laureate of the prestigious Prince Albert Fund. She is a qualified business and personal coach.

She is known by her stakeholders as a courageous, decisive and inclusive leader with a strong drive for change. She is caring, result-driven and likes learning.

Jesher Loi
Director, Branding and Marketing Development, Ya Kun International
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Jesher Loi
Director, Branding and Marketing Development, Ya Kun International

Jesher Loi is Ya Kun International's third-generation business owner and brand guardian. Ya Kun is a regional brand that serves Singapore’s heritage breakfast of kaya toast and local coffee. They are currently in 11 countries with over 131 outlets worldwide. Jesher oversees the branding elements of each outlet and ensures brand consistency throughout its operations. He is also actively involved in the regional expansion strategy as Ya Kun goes beyond Singapore’s shores. On the side, Jesher is actively involved in the classical music scene among youth and also strives to use the vehicle of the business for social good.

Fay Fay Choo
Asia Cocoa Director, Mars Incorporated
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Fay Fay Choo
Asia Cocoa Director, Mars Incorporated

Fay Fay Choo is the Asia Cocoa Director for Mars Incorporated and responsible for Mars’ sustainable sourcing strategies in Asia. In this role, she is humbled to be able to serve tens of thousands of cocoa smallholder farming families and communities in Indonesia, the Philippines and PNG. Fay’s passionate about transferring science and technology solutions from Mars research centres, through community and farmer empowerment based approaches, to enable adoption at scale for improved yields and income. The next movement is now focused on scaling diversified cocoa agroforestry, which brings resilient farmer livelihoods and environmental protection across landscapes together, to make chocolate that brings smiles to farming families and consumers around the world.

Munib Madni
Founding Panvestor, CEO, Panarchy Partners
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Munib Madni
Founding Panvestor, CEO, Panarchy Partners

Munib Madni from Panarchy Partners is the founding Panvestor and Lead PM of the Global Panvest® Fund, a portfolio of Purpose-Driven companies. After 25 years of investing for the likes of Morgan Stanley and Aberdeen, Munib founded Panarchy Partners with a mission to redefine wealth and how it is created. Panarchy Partners has Pioneered the Panvesting Philosophy, a natural and required evolution of investing. As a shareholder, to Panvest is to be vested in the four forms of capital (human, social, environmental and financial) that a firm needs and nurtures to deliver on their purpose and still make profits.  

Munib has been investing for 27 years. He started his career in Sydney, Australia, with the likes of Equitilink Investment Management and Aberdeen Asset Management where he focused on Australian Equities. In 2005, he moved to Singapore with Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) to broaden his equity focus. He was at MSIM for 14 years and had assignments such as PM Emerging Markets Team, Chief Investment Officer Asia and CO-PM Active International Allocation Strategy. After leaving MSIM in 2018, he founded Panarchy Partners with a strong belief in the philosophy of Panvesting.  

Munib has been a student throughout his life. He received a Bachelor of Finance (First Class Honors) & LLB from the University of Technology, Sydney. He also obtained his CFA Designation in early 2000. In 2018, he went back to school to sharpen his skills as a Panvestor and in June 2020, he graduated from the National University of Singapore with an MSc in Environmental Management (MEM).

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