Sustainability Forum

Esther An

Chief Sustainability Officer
City Developments Limited

As the Chief Sustainability Officer of Singapore-based property firm City Developments Limited (CDL), Esther An has long held a reputation for carrying her commitments beyond her corporate roles—promoting sustainability across sectors, speaking at events around the world and bringing people together to build partnerships.

Some of the key environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) initiatives Esther has spearheaded include: publishing the first sustainability report in Singapore in 2008, issuing the first green bond by a Singaporean company in 2017, and building an integrated sustainability reporting framework since 2015. In 2022, she was appointed to chair the Sustainability Reporting Advisory Committee, set up by Acra and SGX RegCo to create a sustainability roadmap for Singapore companies.

Mun Wei Chan

Founder & Principle Consultant
SustainableSG

SustainableSG was started by Chan Mun Wei in September 2018 to provide consultancy and training services on sustainability, strategy, risk management and entrepreneurship.

Before starting SustainableSG, Chan Mun Wei was the Divisional Director of Corporate Planning and Sustainability Lead at Sentosa Development Corporation from April 2009 to August 2018. His responsibilities included corporate strategy and organizational transformation, developing and implementing the Sentosa Sustainability Plan, managing corporate-wide enterprise risk management, corporate social responsibility and data analytics.

Mun Wei graduated from Stanford University with dual degrees – Bachelor of Arts (Distinction) in Anthropology and Master of Arts in Education – and subsequently completed an MBA at the National University of Singapore. He is an Associate Lecturer at the Singapore University of Social Sciences and an Independent Board Director of BBR Holdings, an SGX-listed company.

He is involved in pro bono and community work, such as volunteering with The Matcha Initiative non-profit to promote corporate sustainability, serving as a member of the MDIS School of Tourism and Hospitality Advisory Board, and conducting undergraduate admission interviews for Stanford University. He is also one of LinkedIn's Top Voices for Green Singapore 2023.

Carrie Chan

CEO & Co-Founder
Avant Meats

From a laboratory located in Hong Kong Science Park, Carrie Chan is mapping out the future of fish. The CEO of Avant Meats, she co-founded the company in 2018 with biotech scientist Mario Chin, with the aim of making food production more sustainable.

Focusing on fish as a result of Hong Kong’s seafood-heavy diet, and because of the unsustainable methods currently used to harvest it, the company creates protein in a factory, taking small amounts of cells from fish and feeding them nutrients in a bioreactor.

An architect by professional background, Chan has worked for property developer ITC, and Macau casino resort The 13; the Hong Kong government’s Architectural Services Department and the Urban Renewal Authority, as well as for leading architecture firms Farrells and Wong & Ouyang.

Amanda Yap

Head of Sustainability
Fullerton Fund Management

Amanda is Head of Sustainability at Fullerton Fund Management. She is responsible for developing the firm’s Sustainability policies. She also works closely with the investment teams on ESG research. Amanda joined Fullerton in 2020.

She was previously at GIC as a portfolio manager for four years and prior to that, as an associate at BlackRock for three years. She also did stints in the impact space, with Planet Finance in China and the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network in Singapore.

Amanda holds a Masters degree of Business Administration from INSEAD and a Bachelor’s degree of Science in Operations Research with a minor in Economics from Columbia University. She holds the Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting credential, awarded by the Sustainable Accounting Standards Board, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst charterholder.

Linyun Wei

Business VP, Sustainability and Development
Schneider Electric

Linyun is Vice President of Sustainability and Business Development, Singapore at Schneider Electric. In this role, Linyun works closely with customers to understand their sustainability commitments and develop ambitious but achievable science-based strategies to help them meet their decarbonisation goals.

Linyun has been with Schneider Electric since the start of her professional career, first joining as a Product Application Engineer. Over the last eight years, Linyun’s scope has expanded to Digital Consultant, Business Leader, Solutions Architect, and Product Specialist. She has built her expertise in servicing clients across a range of sectors including healthcare, education, real estate, and data centres, and has a proven track record of cultivating multi-market partnerships with C-level personnel, asset managers, and technology leaders.

Linyun holds a Master’s degree from the National University of Singapore in Management of Technology, and a Bachelor’s degree with Honours from Nanyang Technological University in Mechanical Engineering, with a specialisation in Mechatronics.