Sustainability Workforce Transformation Programme
Speaker Panel
Corine Tap
Regional President Asia. Friesland Campina
President Asia Middle East Africa, Danone 2021-2022
President Director, Danone Aqua 2017-2021
Managing DIrector Food Solutions, Unilever Indonesia 2006-2010
Regional Sales Manager, Unilever Beijing 2002-2003
Corine is a passionate advocate for sustainability and business. With a Master's degree in Econometrics from Amsterdam University, she brings over 20 years of experience living and working in Asia. As Senior Vice President for Royal Friesland Campina in the Asia-Pacific region since November 1st, 2022, Corine oversees strategic initiatives to improve the health of both people and the planet. Prior to this role, she held prominent positions at Danone and Unilever, including President for AM EA - Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, and membership in the Executive Committee. Corine is also an advisor to Circulate Capital, mentoring environmental entrepreneurs and young changemakers in the region. Recognized for her sustainability leadership, Corine was awarded "Best Green CEO" at the Social Business Innovation Awards in 2017 for her pioneering efforts in Indonesia. A sought-after speaker, she actively engages in discussions on sustainability both regionally and globally.
Corine Tap
Regional President Asia. Friesland Campina
Dawn Chan
CEO, Centre for Impact Investment & Practices (CIIP)
Managing Director Investment, Temasek Trust
Managing Director Investments, Temasek International 2014-2021
Director Investments, Temasek International 2003-2014
Dawn is the CEO of CIIP and Managing Director of Investments at Temasek Trust Capital. Dawn leads and sets the strategic direction and growth of CIIP, and manages the investment portfolio for Temasek Trust Capital.
As an experienced investor, she draws on over 20 years of investment experience in private equity, venture and fund-of-fund investments across Asia, the US and Europe. Prior to joining Temasek Trust, she helmed the Consumer unit at Temasek International, where she spent 19 years. Dawn started her investment career at Vertex Holdings, a venture capital fund in Singapore. She was previously at Asia Pacific Molecular Biology Network and Singapore's National Science & Technology Board.
Dawn Chan
CEO, Centre for Impact Investment & Practices (CIIP) Managing Director Investment, Temasek Trust
Renat Heuberger
Co-Founder, Southpole
Renat Heuberger is an entrepreneur in sustainability and climate action. He co-founded the myclimate foundation and South Pole, two climate action pioneers.
Renat Heuberger is an entrepreneur in sustainability and climate action. He co-founded the myclimate foundation and South Pole, two climate action pioneers. Renat was named Social Entrepreneur by the World Economic Forum's Schwab Foundation, is an elected member of the Innovation Council for the Swiss government, is a YPO Global Impact Award winner, and serves on various boards. He holds a masters degree in environmental science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and has completed executive education programs at INSEAD and the Harvard Kennedy School.
Renat Heuberger
Co-Founder, Southpole
Dr. Astrid Tuminez
President, Utah Valley University
Regional Director Corporate, External & Legal Affairs SEA - Microsoft 2012-2018
Vice Dean - Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy NUS 2008-2012
PHD MIT, MA Harvard University
Dr. Astrid S. Tuminez (pronounced too-MEE-nez) was appointed the seventh president of Utah Valley University (UVU) in 2018. Born in a farming village in the Philippine province of Iloilo, she moved with her parents and siblings to the slums of Iloilo City when she was two years old, as her parents sought better educational opportunities for their children.
Her pursuit of education eventually took her to the United States where she graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in International Relations and Russian Literature from Brigham Young University (1986). She later earned a master's degree in Soviet Studies (1988) from Harvard University and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Political Science (1996).
Before UVU, President Tuminez was an executive at Microsoft, where she led corporate, external, and legal affairs in Southeast Asia. She also served as vice dean of research at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. She has worked in philanthropy and venture capital in New York City and is a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is the author of “Russian Nationalism Since 1856: Ideology and the Making of Foreign Policy” and many other publications. She and her husband, Jeffrey S. Tolk, have three children. In her spare time, she enjoys running, dancing, and travelling.
Dr. Astrid Tuminez
President, Utah Valley University
Roberto Guidetti
CEO, Vitasoy
ESG Committee, Executive Committee
Director of the Board
- Givaudan
- Ariston
Ex Coca Cola China
Ex P&G Taiwan, China
Mr. Guidetti joined Vitasoy as the Group Chief Executive Officer on 1st April 2013 and has fully assumed the roles and responsibilities of the former Group Chief Executive Officer on 1st August 2013. He has 34 years of proven track record in general management, strategic/business planning, marketing/ commercial leadership, product innovation and new business development. He has matured his professional expertise in two of the largest global fast moving consumer goods organisations and across local, regional and global roles in Europe and Asia. He has spent the last 23 years in this field in Mainland China, and regions including the Hong Kong SAR and Taiwan. Mr. Guidetti is a non-executive director of Ariston Group (listed company in Italy) and Givaudan (listed company in Switzerland).
Roberto Guidetti
CEO, Vitasoy
Director of the Board
- Givaudan
- Ariston
Bart Houlahan
Co-Founder of B-Lab
Dharsono Hartono
CEO - PT. Rimba Makmur Utama
Hartono is CEO of PT Rimba Makmur Utama, an Indonesian-based company that implements a sustainable land-use model by reducing deforestation and degradation, promoting conservation, enhancing ecological integrity, and promoting economic growth. Through the Katingan Mentaya Project, the company protects and restores large areas of peat swamp forest while offering local communities sustainable income sources selling carbon credits, permits that allow companies to emit a certain amount of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gasses.
Hartono was the initiator of the Indonesia Palm Oil Pledge (IPOP), a private sector-led initiative launched during the 2014 Climate Summit to find implementable solutions for sustainable palm oil in Indonesia. He also works with the local communities to help them shift from extractive economic activities, such as logging, to more sustainable activities. Conservation has been near to Hartono's heart. He served as the Deputy Head of Permanent Committee in Sustainable Forestry, Conservation and Climate for Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry from 2010-2015.
He is the Deputy Head of Permanent Committee for Americas and International Economic Institution for Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and has been working with World Economic Forum (WEF) to form the Natural Climate Solutions Alliance.
Hartono has been recognized with numerous accolades including Indonesian EY Entrepreneur – Environmental Avant Garde Award, a Social Innovators of the Year by the Schwab Foundation and a Sustainability Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. He is a graduate of Cornell University earning both a bachelor's degree in operational research and industrial engineering, and a master's in financial engineering.
Dharsono Hartono
CEO - PT. Rimba Makmur Utama
Robert Rubinstein
Chairman and Founding Partner of TBLI Group Holdings B.V. with headquarters in The Netherlands.
Robert Rubinstein is the Chairman and Founding Partner of TBLI Group Holdings B.V. with headquarters in The Netherlands. The Company was founded in 1998 with the mission of integrating ESG and TBLI into the culture and strategy of international corporate business and investment companies. Mr. Rubinstein has been instrumental in championing Sustainable and IMPACT investment dedicated to solving social issues. Prior to TBLI, Mr. Rubinstein had an extensive career in publishing. He founded the first bicycle magazine in The Netherlands, FIETS in 1981, and Source magazine in 1995, a publication focused on integrating “profits and principles” as a message to the business community. FIETS and Source were based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. FIETS was sold to VNU Magazines and it is still in circulation today. Mr. Rubinstein taught courses in Sustainable Finance at the Rotterdam School of Management from 2003–2006 and in his career has delivered many lectures at international business schools and universities.
Robert Rubinstein
Chairman and Founding Partner of TBLI Group Holdings B.V.
Founded in 1982, Urmatt Group is a pioneer of the organic agriculture industry in Thailand, Argentina and Laos, and the world's largest organic jasmine rice producer. Urmatt has achieved this success by using a business model based on choosing a crop with more demand than supply, then selling it at a premium while also supporting economically underprivileged and culturally indigenous communities of farmers. Urmatt finds its strength in operating a circular economy, zero-waste model using every part of the plant and creating multiple value-added products beyond selling rice as rice.
Arvind Narula
Founder of the:
- Urmatt group.
- Hilltribe Organics
- Perfect Earth Foods
- Organic Latin America SA
- Ecologic Circle
Carlota is the Senior Policy Lead at B Lab and has a background in European Union Law (LL.M) and leads advocacy initiatives in the sphere of sustainable finance. She's also a member of EFRAG TEG, the European Commission's advisory body for the development of the new European Sustainability Reporting Standards. She's a former corporate sustainability consultant, specialized in impact measurement, ESG reporting, and assurance.
Carlota de Paula Coelho
Senior Policy Manager,
B-Lab Europe
Dr Krzysztof Dembek is a strategic impact management and sustainable business models expert with over two decades of experience as a manager, consultant, researcher, and teacher. His experience in social impact evaluation and management led him to co-develop the Actionable Impact Management Framework in 2016 - a tool which helps organisations to start tracking and managing their impact.
He is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Social Impact (CSI) Swinburne, and a visiting professor at WSB University in Gdansk, Poland and a co-founder of Impactability Solutions, an impact strategy and management advisory team.
Krzysztof Dembek
Chief Impact Officer,
Climate Foundation
Kishore Ravuri
Head of Sustainability
Dutch Lady Malaysia
Founder of Impacto
Kishore Ravuri is currently the Head of Strategy and an extended management team member for Dutch Lady Milk Industries (DLMI) Berhad, supporting the company's near and long-term business focus and ambition, including sustainability agenda and performance.
Prior to this, as one of the leading sustainability practitioners in Malaysia, he served as the Head of Sustainability, responsible for driving ESG integration efforts as well as for devising and operationalising sustainability frameworks, policies, and programmes, while building capacity and reputation of DLMI as a responsible business.
Before DLMI, he was the Chief Impact Officer of one and only sustainability advisory that is a certified Benefit Corporation or B-Corp (in Malaysia), IMPACTO Sdn Bhd. His efforts were mainly focused on consulting and coaching business leaders on responsible and inclusive business practices.
Kishore Ravuri
Head of Sustainability
Dutch Lady Malaysia
Founder of Impacto
Anil David
Founder, Agape Connecting People Pte. Ltd / Chief Evangelist / Author / Community Builder
Anil David is the Founder of Agape Connecting People Pte Ltd, a social enterprise that serves to provide equal upskilling and employment opportunities for a sustainable community transformation.
He spearheaded the setup of Agape's men and women's contact centres in Changi Prison to provide reskilling and work opportunities impact for prison inmates.
He also facilitated the opening of Agape Training and Job Placement Centre, in partnership with Barclays, which provides critical reskilling and job opportunities for vulnerable communities, including ex-offenders, single mothers, the physically challenged and low-income residents.
He recently published his autobiography entitled 'The Longest Shortcut' which sold over 15,000 copies.
Anil David
Founder, Agape Connecting People Pte. Ltd / Chief Evangelist / Author / Community Builder