Ian has over 18 years of experience in both professional and commercial practice and leads the KPMG Singapore Sustainability Advisory and Assurance team. He is a member of ISCA Corporate Reporting Committee, which has been tasked to increase the awareness and quality of sustainability reporting in Singapore.

Ian has experience in the reporting and monitoring of controls and development of KPIs for his clients. He has been advising and supporting various companies across sectors in developing their sustainability governance structure, sustainability programs and sustainability report to achieve alignment with local stock exchange regulations and global frameworks.

Ian contributes to sustainability reporting thought leaderships and publications and has conducted sustainability workshops, briefings and roundtables. He participates actively in sustainability forums and panel sessions organised by regulators, professional bodies and industry associations, and sits on the judging panel for the ASEAN CSR Awards and the Singapore Environmental Achievement Award (SEAA) where he is involved in the development of the judging criteria to identify companies with good sustainability reporting practices in the region and their respective sectors.

Mr Melvin Yong Yik Chye is currently Assistant Secretary-General of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC). He is also Director for NTUC’s U Associate, as well as Supervising Lead for the Labour Movement’s Electronics, Marine & Engineering Cluster. Concurrently, he is Executive Secretary of the National Transport Workers’ Union (NTWU) and the United Workers of Electronics & Electrical Industries (UWEEI). He is also Adviser to the Housing & Development Board Staff Union (HDBSU) and Trustee of the Union of Security Employees (USE).

Active in industrial relations and a firm believer of workers’ training, Mr Yong is a Member of NTUC’s Training Council and the Resource Lead of NTUC’s Training Committee (Manufacturing). He is also Deputy Chairman of the NTUC’s Industrial Workers’ Education & Training Fund Committee and a Member of the Industrial Relations Council.

An advocate for consumer protection, Mr Yong is Vice President of the Consumer Association of Singapore (CASE) Central Committee and Chairman of the Consumer Empowerment Panel.

Representing the Labour Movement at the national level, Mr Yong is President of the IndustriALL Singapore National Council. He is a member of the Singapore Workplace Safety & Health Council and a Member of the Tripartite Oversight Committee on WSH. He is also a Member of the Manufacturing and Land Connectivity sub-committees under the Future Economy Council. He is a Member of the Public Transport Tripartite Committee and chairs the Land Transport ITM Steering Committee which oversees the manpower development in the public transport industry. He is also a Board Member of the Land Transport Authority.

Mr Yong is an elected Member of Parliament for the Tanjong Pagar Group Representative Constituency and Chairman of the Tanjong Pagar Town Council. He is an Executive Committee Member of the Singapore Parliamentary Society and sits on the Government Parliamentary Committees for Transport, Health and Social & Family Development.

Mr Yong was awarded a scholarship in 1992 by the Singapore Police Force to study Accountancy at Nanyang Technological University. In 2005, he graduated with a Master of Science in Criminal Justice from the University of Leicester.

Mr Yong is married with two children.

Mr Ho is the Chief Executive Officer of SBF. The SBF is the Apex Business Chamber of Singapore with membership from more than 26,800 top companies.

Prior to joining SBF in 2011, Mr Ho held a variety of senior policy and executive positions in Singapore Government including four years as Principal Private Secretary to then Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew; as Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was also Chief Executive of the Singapore Broadcasting Authority, Land Transport Authority and Managing Director of the Economic Development Board. Mr Ho currently serves on Singapore’s APEC Business Advisory Council and several Singapore public sector Advisory Councils and Boards. He is a Board Member of the SBF Foundation. Mr Ho is also a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Directors.

Professor Annie Koh is Vice President of Business Development, V3 Group Professor of Family Entrepreneurship, Professor of Finance (Practice) at Singapore Management University (SMU). She is also the Academic Director for two-university level institutes – the Business Families Institute and International Trading Institute. Her previous portfolios at SMU included positions as Associate Dean, Lee Kong Chian School of Business and Dean, Office of Executive & Professional Education.

A notable conference speaker, panel moderator and commentator, Annie is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on New Education and Work Agenda and, a board member of Keppel Prime US REIT and Prudential Assurance Company Singapore Pte Ltd. In addition, she chairs the finance and investment committee of GovTech Singapore Board, and the Asian Bond Fund 2 Supervisory Committee of Monetary Authority of Singapore. She has been an appointed board member of Singapore’s Central Provident Fund since 2014 and serves on the HR Transformation Advisory Panel and chairs the TAFEP Awards. In 2019, Annie is appointed a member of Customs Advisory Council and advises a number of startup firms such as Stashaway and Staff-on-Demand, in addition to serving as advisor to private firms such as PBA Group and SWAT of Goldbell Group. Annie previously served on K1 Ventures board from 2013-2017 and Health Management International Ltd from 2016-2019.

A Fulbright scholar, Annie earned her PhD in International Finance from Stern School of Business, New York University (1988). Her research interests are in Family Office and Family Business, Investor Behaviour, Alternative Investments and Enterprise Risk Management. She co-authored Financial Management: Theory and Practice, An Asia Edition (2014), and Financing Internationalisation – Growth Strategies for Successful Companies (2004), and author of a number of Asian family business cases and survey reports.

Annie is awarded the Singapore Public Administration Medal, Bronze (2010), Silver (2016), and the Adult Education Prism Award (2017) for her contributions to the education and public sectors.

En Lee is the Head of Sustainable and Impact Investments, Asia at LGT, the world’s largest family-owned private banking and asset management group with over US$200bn in assets under management. He leads the Asia team and manages the regional impact investment portfolio in Southeast Asia and China, serving on the boards of several portfolio organizations in the Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia. He is a Partner of LGT Lightstone, the firm’s global impact investing initiative, and a member of the LGT Sustainability Board. Before LGT, En was an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs advising investment funds.

A recognized industry pioneer, En serves on the World Economic Forum ESG Advisory Group, China Green Finance Committee, and the Asia Investor Group on Climate Change. He is an LP Advisory Committee Member of Triple P Financial Inclusion Fund, a Steering Committee Member of Harvard Business School's Impact Investing Group, an Entrepreneur In Residence at INSEAD, and an Adviser to B Corporation. En graduated from the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School and is a CAIA charterholder. He was selected as an Aspen Institute Finance Leaders Fellow and is a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.