Steward Leadership 25

Mr Patrick Daniel had a 3-decade career with Singapore Press Holdings (SPH). Prior to joining the media industry, he served in the Singapore Government Administrative Service, where his last position was director in the Ministry of Trade and Industry.

He joined SPH as a senior writer in the Straits Times in October 1986. He was editor of the Business Times from 1992 to 2002 and editor-in-chief of SPH's English, Malay and Tamil newspapers from 2007 to 2016. He retired as SPH’s Deputy CEO in September 2017 and served as a consultant to SPH until August 2018.

Mr Daniel returned to the media industry in July 2021 when he was appointed a director and interim CEO of SPH Media Trust which took over the media business of SPH. He stepped down as interim CEO in February 2022 and remains a director of SPH Media Trust.

Mr Daniel graduated from University College, Oxford in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Engineering Science and Economics. He has a Master of Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

His other current appointments include non-executive director of Sembcorp Marine Ltd and Stewardship Asia Centre, as well as non-executive chairman of ShareInvestor Holdings. He is also president of the Singapore Press Club.

His previous recent appointments include serving on the Singapore University of Technology and Design boards and the National University Health System. 
 

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.

André 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. André 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. André’s also helped establish the Hoffmann Global Institute in Business and Society (HGIBS) at INSEAD, and chairs its Advisory Board. André studied economics at St. Gallen University and holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Professor Tommy Koh is currently Professor of Law at NUS; Ambassador-At-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the Rector of the Tembusu College at NUS; Chairman of the Governing Board of the Centre for International Law at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Special Adviser to IPS.  He is the Chairman of the International Advisory Panel of the Asia Research Institute (NUS) and Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Master’s Degree on Environmental Management (NUS).  He is also the Co-chairman of the Asian Development Bank’s Advisory Committee on Water and Sanitation.  

He had served as Singapore's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, Ambassador to the United States of America, High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador to Mexico. He was President of the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea.  He was also the Chairman of the Preparatory Committee for and the Main Committee of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (Earth Summit).  

Professor Koh received the Champion of the Earth Award from UNEP and the inaugural President's Award for the Environment from Singapore. Harvard University conferred on him the Great Negotiator Award in 2014.
 

Professor Kong is SMU’s fifth President, and the first Singaporean to lead the 22-year old university.  She is also the first Singaporean woman to head a university in Singapore.  She was previously Provost of SMU, Vice Provost and Vice President at the National University of Singapore (in various portfolios).  

Professor Kong is internationally known for her research on urban transformations in Asian cities, with particular focus on social and cultural change.  She has written extensively about communal relations, particularly, the intersection of religion and secularity in cities, creative industries/cities, urban heritage conservation, and smart cities.   She is an award-winning researcher and teacher locally and internationally.

Prof Kong was conferred the Public Service Star in 2020 and Public Administration Medal (Silver) in 2006.  In a global study by Stanford University (2020), Prof Kong was identified as among the world’s top 1% of scientists in the field of Geography.  She was included in the Forbes Inaugural 50 over 50 (Asia 2022), recognised in Kompasiana Online (2021) as one of the 10 most influential women in Asia, and in Forbes Asia’s Power Businesswomen 
list (2020).

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 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 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 a MSc Environmental Management (MEM).

Dr Sta Maria played an integral role in Malaysia’s participation in multilateral forums such as APEC, where she often represented her economy during the APEC Ministers’ Responsible for Trade Meetings and the Small and Medium Enterprises Ministerial Meetings. In the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Dr Sta Maria chaired the body that drafted the ASEAN Economic Community 2015 Blueprint as well as the ASEAN Economic Community 2025 Blueprint.

An accomplished academic and writer, Dr Sta Maria’s scholarship has been recognized through awards from the American Academy of Human Resource Development and from the University of Georgia. In 2017, she authored a book about her personal slice of Malaysian heritage and cuisine, called The Smell of Home.

Before 2010, the position of executive director of the APEC Secretariat rotated yearly among officials assigned by the incumbent host economy. Starting in 2010, the appointment was opened to applications from highly qualified professionals who will, when appointed, lead the Secretariat in fixed three-year terms with an option to renew. Dr Sta Maria is the first woman executive director of the APEC Secretariat.

Narayan began his career teaching and developing strategy – which helps leaders manage organizations. He has worked at New York University, the University of Alberta (Canada) and the National University of Singapore. He also worked as a strategy consultant with the Monitor Group and, his own company, Clean Slate Consulting, before joining INSEAD. 

Several years ago, his focus shifted to helping leaders do the things they conceptually knew they should be doing but, were not doing today. He now works with leaders in FMCG, financial services, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, retail, and in government and non-profits, to help them lead better. At INSEAD, Narayan has been Associate Dean of Executive Education for Asia, and Dean of Executive Education for all INSEAD.
 

Professor Joanne Roberts is the Executive Vice President (Academic Affairs) at Yale-NUS College. She oversees all academic and student programming. 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 in as Associate Dean (Faculty Development) in January 2017. Professor Roberts is a public economist, interested in how incentives affect behaviour in 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 Economic 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 board of the Calgary Immigrant Women’s Association.

Dr 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 Ph.D and A.M. in Economics from Harvard University and B.A. in Economics (First Class Honors) from Thammasat University.