Steward Leadership 25 (2023)

Mr Patrick Daniel

Director, SPH Media Trust

Mr Patrick Daniel had a three-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.

Mr Daniel is currently Non-executive Chairman of the ShareInvestor Group after participating in a management buyout from SPH in November 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.

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

Mr André Hoffmann

Vice Chairman, Roche Holding AG

Mr André Hoffmann is a businessman, environmentalist and philanthropist. He firmly believes in business as a force for good, and is a passionate advocate for the corporate pursuit of societal purpose and sustainability.

Mr Hoffmann is Vice Chairman of Roche Holding AG, a highly innovative pharmaceutical company established by his great-grandfather in 1896. He also serves on the board of the fully-owned subsidiary, Genentech Inc. Alongside these non-executive roles in the family business, André joined the Board of SystemIQ to help drive positive disruption in economic systems; and sits on the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum, and the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Mr Hoffmann also has a distinguished career in nature conservation and sustainability. He is the President of the MAVA Foundation, a leading conservation foundation, and President of Fondation Tour du Valat, a world-renowned institute dedicated to wetland conservation. He has also served on the boards of WWF International, Wetlands International, Global Footprint Network, and FIBA. Mr Hoffmann also helped establish the Hoffmann Global Institute in Business and Society (HGIBS) at INSEAD, and chairs its Advisory Board.

Mr Hoffmann studied economics at St. Gallen University and holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Mr Munib Madni

Founding Panvestor, CEO, Panarchy Partners

Mr 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, Mr Madni 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.  

Mr Madni 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.  

Mr Madni 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).

Tan Sri Dr Rebecca Fatima Sta Maria

Executive Director, APEC Secretariat, Singapore

Professor Joanne Roberts

President, Yale-NUS College

Professor Joanne Roberts is the President of Yale-NUS College and is responsible for all dimensions of the academic programme, administration and external relations. She is deeply committed to the liberal arts model of education and its broad and inclusive approach of students’ academic and personal development.

Professor Roberts did her undergraduate training in economics at the University of Waterloo and her graduate work at Queen’s University in Canada. In 1998, she joined the faculty at the University of Toronto, and in 2008, the University of Calgary, before joining Yale-NUS as Associate Dean (Faculty Development) in January 2017. Professor Roberts is a public economist, interested in how incentives affect behaviour in a broad number of situations. She has published papers in journals such as American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, The Journal of Public Economics and International Economic Review.

She has served as a member of the executive of the Canadian Economics Association, President of the Canadian Economics Women’s Network, and co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics. A Polanyi research prize winner, Professor Roberts previously held the Canada Research Chair in the Economics of Organizations at the University of Calgary. She also served on the advisory council of NINEby9 and on the board of the Calgary Immigrant Women’s Association.

Dr Veerathai Santiprabhob

Chairman of the Executive Board, Mae Fah Luang Foundation

Dr Veerathai Santiprabhob currently serves as the Chairman of the Executive Board of Mae Fah Luang Foundation – a foundation that promotes social enterprises and sustainable development in Thailand and abroad. He also serves as vice chairperson of the board of Thailand Development Research Institute, a member of the oversight committee of the World Food Programme, and a board member of leading listed companies in Thailand.  

Prior to this, he was the governor of the Bank of Thailand (2015-2020) and had steered rapid digital transformation of the Thai financial system. 

Dr Santiprabhob has extensive expertise in macroeconomic policy and extensive financial sector experience. He has also been very active in civil society work to promote sustainability. He received his PhD and AM in Economics from Harvard University and BA in Economics (First Class Honours) from Thammasat University. 

Professor Dr. Hellmut Schütte

Professor Emeritus of International Management, INSEAD, Singapore

Hellmut Schütte is Professor Emeritus of International Management at INSEAD whose faculty he joined in Fontainebleau, France, in 1981 after a career in the areas of marketing and investment banking. Within the faculty, he was strongly engaged in INSEAD’s activities in Asia. Up to the fall of 2006, Professor Schütte was the Dean of INSEAD’s fast growing Asia Campus located in Singapore.

He was also a Professor of CEIBS, the leading business school in China that is jointly owned by the Government of China and the European Commission. He served this institution as Distinguished Professor and Dean from 2009-2015, before returning to INSEAD.

Professor Schütte is particularly interested in influence of politics and economics on the strategies of corporations, both globally and in Asia. He is actively involved in the discussion of the emergence of China and its consequences for the world.

He studied economics and business administration in Germany and obtained his doctorate from the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. He was Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, Visiting Professor at Boston University, and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. IEDC of Slovenia, the leading business school in Central and Eastern Europe, conferred a Honorary Professorship to him.

Professor Schütte has lived and worked in ten countries in Europe, the States and Asia. He has taught in seminars in another 40 countries all over the world. He is a well-known speaker and moderator in conferences, forums, and business meetings such as the World Economic Forum. He is also actively involved in various boards, advisory roles, and consulting assignments. Among others, he is an advisor to IMAAsia, a network of CEOs in Asia, and an active business angel who invests in digital start-ups.

He is the author of many articles, case studies and nine books, among them the best-seller ‘Strategies for Asia Pacific’. Prof. Schütte is a permanent resident of Singapore and a devoted offshore yachtsman.