18 September 2025 I Singapore
Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre

SPEAKERS
Impact Summit Asia is a highly curated invite-only institutional investor conference that invites global leaders, pioneers and experts of the impact & sustainable investing universe to share their knowledge and inspiration.
Free for asset owners/LPs, please apply for an invitation.
KEYNOTE AND SPOTLIGHT SPEAKERS 2025
Bryan Goh
CEOTsao Family Office
Chavalit Frederick Tsao
ChairmanTsao Pao Chee Group
Diana Watson
Head of Sustainability and Impact InvestmentTsao Family Office
Rajeev Peshawaria
CEOStewardship Asia Centre

Bryan Goh
CEO
Tsao Family Office

Chavalit Frederick Tsao
Chairman
Tsao Pao Chee Group

Diana Watson
Head of Sustainability and Impact Investment
Tsao Family Office
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Rajeev Peshawaria
CEO
Stewardship Asia Centre
FEATURED SPEAKERS 2025
Annisah Fatma Smith
Senior Strategic Partnerships ManagerStewardship Asia Centre
Ayako Kageyama
Head of Innovative Sustainable FinanceNippon Life Insurance Company
Ayesha Bohart
Director, Training & ProgramsCenter for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth Singapore
Chii Fen Hiu
Centre for Impact Investing and Practices (CIIP)Devahuti Choudhury
Senior Specialist- Private Finance for SDGs for Asia PacificUNDP
Diana Watson
Head of Sustainability and Impact InvestmentTsao Family Office
Di Fu
Vice PresidentTemasek International
Hampton Tao
Investment ManagerNew Heritage Group
Hao Tian
Senior Advisor, Blended Finance SolutionsGlobal Climate Finance Accelerator
Henry Soediarko
Director & Head of Portfolio ManagementFirst Estate Capital Management
Katy Yung
Chief Executive OfficersSustainable Finance Initiative
Kavitha Menon
DirectorSingapore Sustainable Finance Association (SSFA)
Kitty Bu
Vice PresidentSoutheast Asia, Global Energy Alliance for People & Planet (GEAPP)
Lin-Net Koh
Centre for Impact Investing and Practices (CIIP)Mark Mills
PartnerGeneration Investment Management
Mervin Teo
Managing DirectorFullerton Fund Management
Sean Low
CEO & CIOGolden Vision Capital
Shilpa Gulrajani
Managing Director, Global Head of Sustainable Finance Institutional Banking GroupDevelopment Bank of Singapore (DBS)
Wee Kii Teh
Portfolio ManagerAllianz Global Investors
Yana Kaloshina
DirectorPhenix Capital Group - Impact Intelligence
Prachi Modi
Programming ManagerPhenix Capital Group - Impact Intelligence

Chii Fen Hiu
Centre for Impact Investing and Practices (CIIP)
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Devahuti Choudhury
Senior Specialist- Private Finance for SDGs for Asia Pacific
UNDP

Diana Watson
Head of Sustainability and Impact Investment
Tsao Family Office

Di Fu
Vice President
Temasek International

Hampton Tao
Investment Manager
New Heritage Group

Hao Tian
Senior Advisor, Blended Finance Solutions
Global Climate Finance Accelerator

Henry Soediarko
Director & Head of Portfolio Management
First Estate Capital Management

Katy Yung
Chief Executive Officers
Sustainable Finance Initiative
Prior to founding SFi, Katy was Director of Investment at HK-based family office RS Group, where she led their transition from a traditional investment portfolio to one that was 100% sustainably invested. In this role, she was actively involved in designing and implementing impact and climate change strategies across asset classes.
She started her career in investment banking at J.P. Morgan Securities (Asia Pacific) Limited, where she focused on capital raising and M&A transactions across a diverse range of sectors.
Katy graduated from Duke University, NC with a Bachelor degree in Economics, Comparative Area Studies.

Kitty Bu
Vice President
Southeast Asia, Global Energy Alliance for People & Planet (GEAPP)

Lin-Net Koh
Centre for Impact Investing and Practices (CIIP)

Sean Low
CEO & CIO
Golden Vision Capital

Shilpa Gulrajani
Managing Director, Global Head of Sustainable Finance Institutional Banking Group
Development Bank of Singapore (DBS)
Shilpa has extensive experience in advising clients on ESG which includes corporate profiling for investors, labelled financing across both debt capital markets and lending. Shilpa has also led the role of ESG strategy advisory to corporates preparing their IPO journey. She is also the SG Asia Taxonomy Workstream Co-Lead under the Singapore Sustainable Finance Association (SSFA) and is also a member of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) Advisory Group – a global initiative which brings together leaders from Government and private sector on carbon pricing policies.
Prior to joining DBS, Shilpa led Corporate Development & Sustainability for Asia Pacific at BNP Paribas, providing comprehensive ESG advisory and banking solutions. She has a proven track record of deepening client relationships and building strong franchises. Shilpa has worked in India as well as Hong Kong within both corporate and Investment Banking space prior to moving to Singapore in 2015. Shilpa first started her banking career in 2002 with Citigroup in India.

Wee Kii Teh
Portfolio Manager
Allianz Global Investors

Prachi Modi
Programming Manager
Phenix Capital Group - Impact Intelligence
INTERESTED IN A SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT?
Please get in touch with Prachi Modi : prachimodi@phenixcapitalgroup.com
OUR 2025 ADVISORY BOARD
•Ayako Kageyama, Head of Innovative Sustainable Finance, Nippon Life Insurance Company
• Bryan Goh, Chief Executive Officer, Tsao Family Office Pte. Ltd.
• Chii Fen Hiu, Centre for Impact Investing and Practices (CIIP)
• Diana Watson, Head of Sustainability and Impact Investment, Tsao Family Office Pte. Ltd.
• Eliza Foo, Director of Impact Investing, Temasek
• Hui Hsing Ma, Co-Founder, Blue7
• Kavitha Menon, Director, Singapore Sustainable Finance Association (SSFA)
• Sook Yee Tai,Chairman, NO. 17 Foundation
• Vikas Arora, Chief Impact Investing Officer, AVPN
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INDUSTRY LEADERS & IMPACT PIONEERS
Al Gore
Former Vice President of the United StatesAnita Bhatia
Former Assistant Secretary - General & Deputy Executive Director,UN Women
Matt Damon
Co-founder,WaterEquity and Water.org
Scilla Elworthy
Peace Builder, Three-time Nobel Prize NomineeSir Ronald Cohen
Chair,The Global Steering Group (GSG)
Fran Seegull
President,U.S. Impact Investing Alliance
Hazel Henderson D.Sc.Hon., FRSA,
Founder, Ethical Markets Media,Certified B Corporation
Amit Bouri
CEO & Co-founder,The GIIN
Eva Halvarsson
CEO,AP2
Claudia Kruse
Managing Director Global Responsible Investment & Governance,APG
Ross Piper
CEO,Christian Super
Jennifer Morris
CEO,The Nature Conservancy

Anita Bhatia
Former Assistant Secretary - General & Deputy Executive Director,
UN Women
Before that, Ms. Bhatia served since 2014 as the Director for Development Partner Relations at the World Bank Group. Previously, she held the position of Director of Partnerships and Advisory Services Operations (2011–2014) and Global Head of Knowledge at the International Finance Corporation (2010-2011).
Ms. Bhatia also served as Head of IFC’s Latin America Advisory Operations. In addition to Latin America, she has worked in Africa, Europe, Central Asia, and South and East Asia. Ms. Anita Bhatia brings extensive experience in the area of strategic partnerships, resource mobilization, and management. During her time at the IFC, she developed and expanded innovative partnerships with public and private sector partners to support its strategy in key areas, including fragile and conflict-affected states, gender equality, financial inclusion, support to women-owned businesses, and other priorities critical for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Ms. Bhatia holds a BA in History from Calcutta University, an MA in Political Science from Yale University, and a Juris Doctor in Law from Georgetown University.

Matt Damon
Co-founder,
WaterEquity and Water.org
Inspired during international travel with his family throughout Mexico and Guatemala as a youth, Matt has long been devoted to environmental and social issues. Learning about the immense challenges of accessing safe water and sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa, Matt decided to create the H20 Africa Foundation. In 2009, he teamed up with Gary White to join their organizations and launch Water.org.
For his work as Co-founder of Water.org, Matt, along with fellow Water.org Co-founder Gary, was recognized as one of the TIME 100 most influential people in the world in 2011 and received the Environmental Media Award from The Environmental Media Association in 2013. In 2014, the World Economic Forum named Matt as the Crystal Award winner for his work through Water.org. Matt’s active participation in his organization’s work, including site visits to multiple countries, strategy development, advocacy, and high-level meetings with institutions like the World Bank and the World Economic Forum over the past decade, has positioned him as one of the world’s experts on water and sanitation issues.

Scilla Elworthy
Peace Builder, Three-time Nobel Prize Nominee
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Sir Ronald Cohen
Chair,
The Global Steering Group (GSG)

Fran Seegull
President,
U.S. Impact Investing Alliance
Fran was the Chief Investment Officer and Managing Director of Investments at ImpactAssets where she headed investment management for The Giving Fund—an impact investing donor advised fund. She also oversaw product development for and managed the Global Sustainable Agriculture and Microfinance Plus Notes.
Prior to joining ImpactAssets, Fran was Managing Director at Funk Ventures, an early-stage impact venture capital and acceleration firm. She also served as Vice President of Business Development at Novica, an online retailer of products made by artisans in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Fran has consulted to National Geographic and NPR West as well as a number of family foundations and offices.
Fran has a BS in Economics from Barnard College at Columbia University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She serves on the Investment Committee of Align Impact. Previously, Fran taught a graduate-level course on impact investing at USC’s Marshall School of Business and served on the Investment Committee of the Goldhirsh Foundation and on the G7 Social Impact Investment Task Force Working Group on Asset Allocation. She tweets on impact investing at @franseegull.

Hazel Henderson D.Sc.Hon., FRSA, founder of Ethical Markets Media, Certified B Corporation. She is a world-renowned futurist, active environmentalist, syndicated columnist, and author of award-winning Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy (2006); Mapping the Global Transition to the Solar Age (2014), and other books in 800 libraries, in 20 languages, including “Planetary Citizenship “co-authored by Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda. Ethical Markets is the publisher of Henderson’s forthcoming textbook, “Mapping the Global Green Transition: 2009-2020“.
She is the producer of the global TV series “Transforming Finance“ and the Ethical Markets TV series. She created in 2004 the EthicMark® Awards for Communications Uplifting the Human Spirit & Society, showcasing positive messages to raise the ethical bar on global advertising and in 2009 the annual Green Transition Scoreboard®.
She launched the EthicMarkGEMS®.com, the first global standard certifying only gems NOT mined from Mother Earth, to phase out unnecessary global gem mining, now chemically- identical gems are cheaply available worldwide and also co-created Ethical Biomimicry Finance®. Henderson served as a cabinet-level science policy advisor to the US Office of Technology Assessment, the National Science Foundation, and the National Academy of Engineering.
Her over 400 articles appear in Harvard Business Review, New York Times, LeMonde Diplomatique, and journals in Japan, Britain, Venezuela, China, France, Australia. Honorary Member of the Club of Rome, Fellow of Britain’s Royal Society for Arts and of The World Academy of Art & Science, Henderson shared the 1996 Global Citizen Award with Argentinian Nobelist Pérez Esquivel. She has many honorary degrees.

Amit Bouri
CEO & Co-founder,
The GIIN

Eva Halvarsson
CEO,
AP2

Claudia Kruse
Managing Director Global Responsible Investment & Governance,
APG

Ross Piper
CEO,
Christian Super

Jennifer Morris
CEO,
The Nature Conservancy
INTERESTED IN A SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT?
For more information on speaking engagements, please get in touch with Prachi Modi: prachimodi@phenixcapitalgroup.com