Managing Director, Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) Asia-Pacific
Why This Matters:
Today’s youth are tomorrow’s inheritors - of wealth, risk, and consequence. Ignoring their voices is no longer an option for those serious about legacy.
What To Expect:
In a rare and powerful session, young changemakers aged 8–18 speak candidly about the world they are inheriting and the future they are determined to shape. Through stories of activism, leadership, and lived experience, they challenge wealth holders, institutions, and philanthropists to rethink how capital is deployed, governed, and measured.
This session brings urgency, imagination, and moral clarity to conversations on sustainable finance, family wealth, and long-term stewardship reminding us that impact must be credible not just to peers, but to the next generation.
Future Council Founding Member and Founder of Joseph Recycling
Why This Matters:
Policy sets the guardrails. Leadership sets the ambition. Singapore’s role as a trusted hub for sustainable and impact finance has never been more critical.
What To Expect:
This keynote outlines Singapore’s national vision for sustainable finance and Asia’s transition economy from blended and outcome-based finance to high-integrity philanthropy and family office governance.
With a clear call to action for private wealth, the address reframes leadership from “I to We” and from “ownership to stewardship”, urging bold collaboration, moral courage, and long-term ambition to shape Asia’s next decade of impact.
Why This Matters:
Capital is not neutral. In a world shaped by geopolitical shifts, climate risk, and social fracture, how capital is deployed will determine what and who thrive.
What To Expect:
A rare, high-level conversation between a global statesman and an empowered, intentional next gen investor, examining the forces reshaping the world - from Asia’s rise and multipolarity to systemic risk and opportunity.
Together, they explore one defining question:
How can the world’s capital be mobilised to address humanity’s most urgent challenges - at speed and at scale? This session sets the global context for the day, grounding investment, philanthropy, and policy in real-world complexity.
Director, Grupo Baobá
Why This Matters:
Impact becomes real when intention turns into action.
What To Expect:
A live activation featuring a 13-year-old Balinese changemaker who transforms household plastic waste into handcrafted items funding education for children in need.
In partnership with Singapore-based Plastify, this session invites attendees to participate, not just observe. Through a simple QR pledge, guests directly support the project while recycled items are produced live onsite -tangible proof that youth-led solutions, when backed by capital and community, can scale quickly and meaningfully.
Managing Director, Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) Asia-Pacific
Future Council Founding Member and Founder of Joseph Recycling
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Director, PLASTIFY
Why This Matters:
Legacy today is no longer defined by preservation alone but by purpose, values, and the outcomes we create across generations. For families and institutions alike, the question is how wealth can be stewarded intentionally to remain relevant, resilient, and impactful over time.
What To Expect:
Asian wealth holders share candid, practitioner-led stories of their personal impact and legacy journeys revealing how they align family values with capital deployment across philanthropy, impact investing, innovation, and governance. Through real-world experiences and honest reflections, this session offers practical pathways for families seeking to embed impact into decision-making, empower the next generation, and steward wealth responsibly for long-term, intergenerational good.
Chair, HK4FAMILIES | Executive Director, CUHK Centre for Family Business
Founding Partner, Ocean Capital
Head of Impact, ACTMAX
Why This Matters:
No single actor can shift systems alone. Real impact requires alignment across policy, finance, philanthropy, academia, and civil society.
What To Expect:
Leaders from government, financial institutions, academia, and NGOs unpack how power, policy, and purpose intersect to shape Asia’s impact ecosystem. From blended finance and multi-capital approaches to ecosystem collaboration, this session offers a systems-level view of what it takes to drive impact at scale and how networks can accelerate progress across sectors.
Scientist, University of Illinois Urbana Champagne
Vice President (Sustainability & Resilience), National University of Singapore
Deputy Head of Mission & Head of Cooperation, Embassy of Switzerland in Bangladesh, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs FDFA
Founder & Co-CEO, Roots of Impact
Why This Matters:
Impact should be measurable, visible, and shared.
What To Expect:
A live reveal of the total funds mobilised for the ‘Recycling Hope’ project - celebrating the collective power of aligned action and demonstrating how small, coordinated commitments can create immediate, real-world outcomes.
Managing Director, Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) Asia-Pacific
Director, PLASTIFY
Future Council Founding Member and Founder of Joseph Recycling
What To Expect:
A reflective synthesis of the day’s insights preparing participants to transition from inspiration to implementation in the Impact Labs that follow.
Managing Director, Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) Asia-Pacific
Why This Matters:
Most investment strategies start with capital constraints - fund size, asset class, return targets and then look for problems that fit. This approach often leaves impact-driven enterprises struggling with capital that does not match their realities. As a result, promising solutions to complex social and environmental challenges are constrained not by ambition or capability, but by misaligned financial structures.
Impact-first investing flips this logic. By starting with the problem to be solved and designing capital accordingly, investors can move beyond one-size-fits-all models and toward finance that is truly fit for purpose - aligning incentives, expectations, and structures with real-world needs.
What To Expect:
This workshop introduces impact-first investing as a practical discipline for designing capital around outcomes, not labels. Through hands-on frameworks and real-world examples, participants will:
- Examine why traditional capital structures often fail impact-driven enterprises
- Explore alternative approaches to capital allocation and aggregation, including how different forms of capital can work together over time
- Develop a shared language for matching problems, enterprises, and capital across the returns spectrum
Designed for asset owners, fund managers, ecosystem builders, and practitioners, the session supports those looking to move beyond impact branding toward deliberate, purpose-led capital design. Participants will leave with a clearer view of available options, trade-offs, and strategies for structuring capital that genuinely supports enterprises and systems change
Founder, Innovative Finance Initiative
Asia Regional Director, The ImPact
Why This Matters:
As wealth transfers accelerate across Asia, families are increasingly seeking ways to align capital, values, and leadership across generations—beyond traditional wealth preservation.
What To Expect:
This session explores how Asian families are evolving toward purpose-driven platforms that integrate investment, philanthropy, governance, and next-generation leadership. Participants engage with practical frameworks for aligning values and strategy, turning legacy conversations into actionable structures.
Chair, HK4FAMILIES | Executive Director, CUHK Centre for Family Business
Founding Partner, Ocean Capital
Why This Matters:
Fashion generates about 10% of global carbon emissions and is a major contributor to pollution in rivers and oceans. Indonesia is at the heart of this problem. While there is broad consensus on the need to decarbonise global fashion supply chains, the small and medium-sized businesses that anchor Indonesia’s industry operate on thin margins and struggle to meet these targets. The barrier is not a lack of awareness or technology. It is misaligned incentives across the value chain, spanning brands, manufacturers, consumers, governments, grant providers and investors.
What To Expect:
Participants will be grouped into key players in the ecosystem. Each group will face real constraints and incentives. Through structured discussion and negotiation, participants will work through these trade-offs to align interests around a shared goal: decarbonising the fashion industry in Indonesia.
Managing Partner, Double Delta Pte Ltd.
Vice President, Double Delta Pte Ltd.
Why This Matters:
Families seeking to create systemic impact often underestimate how their actions interact with complex systems and where their true leverage lies.
What To Expect:
This facilitated systems-mapping experience helps participants visualise their leadership role within broader social, environmental, and economic systems. The session surfaces leverage points, interdependencies, and blind spots, enabling more intentional and effective interventions.
Director, Burr Consulting
Why This Matters:
As Asian philanthropy evolves, donors are increasingly looking for structures that offer flexibility, strategic intent, and long-term relevance. While donor-advised funds (DAFs) are well established in other regions, they require thoughtful adaptation to Asia’s cultural norms, regulatory environments, and philanthropic traditions to move beyond transactional grant-making and support systemic change.
What To Expect:
This session examines how DAFs can be re-imagined as purpose-driven platforms for strategic philanthropy in Asia. Drawing on insights from the Asia Community Fund and emerging regional models, participants explore how governance, design choices, and deployment approaches can enable more intentional, flexible, and catalytic giving. The session sets the structural foundation for donors seeking to give with greater clarity, coherence, and long-term impact.
Co-Founder & Partner, KAI Advisory ; Philanthropy Dialogues and Skoll Fellow
Why This Matters:
Sustainability and systemic risk can no longer sit at the margins of wealth management. Institutions that fail to internalise externalities risk misalignment with client values and long-term realities.
What to Expect:
This session examines how financial institutions and advisory organisations embed sustainability, values alignment, and systemic risk awareness into core advisory, investment, and client engagement practices moving from intent to institution-wide action.
Why This Matters:
Impact investing has matured over the past decade, but the incentive systems shaping behavior across investors, intermediaries, and enterprises have largely remained unchanged. The next frontier lies in aligning incentives on both the supply and demand sides of capital to advance social and environmental outcomes. Impact-Linked Finance offers a powerful way to tie finance directly to the achievement of better outcomes.
What To Expect:
Participants are introduced to impact-linked financing models on fund and enterprise levels through real-world case examples across sectors such as inclusive finance, water, e-mobility, and skills development. The session clarifies how these structures work in practice and where they are most effective in scaling impact across Asia.
Founder & Co-CEO, Roots of Impact
Founder, Innovative Finance Initiative
Why This Matters:
Family legacy is shaped not only by how capital is deployed, but by how families navigate governance, transmit values, and manage relationships across generations. As Asian families confront rapid wealth creation and generational transition, aligning purpose, capital, and family dynamics is critical to sustaining long-term impact and family cohesion.
What To Expect:
Through candid case stories shared by families & principals, this session is grounded in insights drawn from the journeys of eight Asian families actively investing for impact, offering a rare window into real transition points and decision-making over time. Participants will learn from lived experiences what worked, what did not, and how families define “enough,” navigate complexity, and steward capital and impact across business, philanthropy, and investing over generations.
Professor Emeritus of Finance (Practice), Singapore Management University
Strategic Advisor (Stewardship and Impact), Tolaram
Chief Executive Officer, Happiness Capital
Why This Matters:
Real climate progress depends on how investors use their influence and not just their capital. Asset allocation alone won't solve the climate crisis as real change requires active ownership and stewardship to drive decarbonization at scale. Through sustained dialogue and outcomes-focused engagement with portfolio companies, investors can effectively address climate-related material risks and opportunities, drive corporate climate action, and generate sustainable long-term value.
What To Expect:
Drawing on PRI principles and real-world case studies, this session reveals how institutional investors use the tools of stewardship to reshape corporate climate action and drive sustainable value creation. Learn from different investor perspectives across impact and responsible investing, each leveraging stewardship distinctly to drive decarbonization and financial return across their portfolios
Regional Director (APAC), UN PRI
Head of Asia (ex-China & Japan), UN PRI
Why This Matters:
Many wealth holders feel a growing responsibility to address climate change yet struggle to translate conviction into coherent action. Without a systems lens and without lived examples well-intentioned efforts risk remaining fragmented or disconnected from real-world impact.
What To Expect:
This session is grounded in the personal journey of a CSP alumnus who transitioned from a corporate career to establishing his own family office, with a clear focus on climate investing. Through lived experience and professional insight, he shares how systems thinking has shaped his investment decisions, governance choices, and approach to deploying capital for climate impact. Participants gain a practical, real-world perspective on how families can align capital, talent, and influence to build a purposeful climate platform and how like-minded wealth holders can come together to mobilise capital for collective impact.
Founder and Managing Partner, Englewood Capital
Why This Matters:
Traditional grant-making alone is often insufficient to address complex, systemic challenges. Asian donors are increasingly seeking more flexible and catalytic approaches.
What To Expect:
In this hands-on lab, participants explore innovative philanthropic instruments such as guarantees, recoverable grants, blended capital, and outcome-based funding. The session supports donors in designing strategies that unlock new markets, de-risk impact solutions, and drive systemic change.
Why This Matters:
Families increasingly expect their wealth to reflect their values, yet struggle to translate purpose into coherent, actionable strategies.
What To Expect:
Participants explore how advisors operationalise family purpose across portfolios, protection solutions, estate planning, and long-term strategies. The session highlights practical approaches to moving from values-based conversations to integrated, future-fit wealth strategies.
What To Expect:
Informal check-in with CSP facilitators
Why This Matters:
Many wealth holders carry unspoken tensions: between growth and responsibility, legacy and innovation, ambition and fear of missteps. This session creates a trusted container to acknowledge those tensions, without judgment and to reconnect with the deeper motivations behind wealth.
What To Expect:
Participants are placed in curated peer circles matched by shared values, impact interests, or life-stage challenges (e.g. next-generation transition, business exits, family governance). Through guided reflection, they revisit the personal stories behind their wealth, explore how past experiences shape current decisions, and articulate the questions they want to explore during the day. The result is psychological safety, peer resonance, and a grounded foundation for deeper work.
Managing Director, Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) Asia-Pacific
Why This Matters:
Many investors leave value on the table because they lack a clear sense of what they are trying to accomplish. Without this clarity, you might find yourself overwhelmed by options, stuck in gridlock with family members, or unsure if your capital is really helping to solve problems. To be effective stewards of capital, we need to treat impact goals with at least as much strategic rigor as financial goals.
What To Expect:
Drawing on the upcoming CSP Investor’s Guide to Goals-based Investing and Philanthropy (with Stanford PACS, MIT Sloan, St. Gallen, and Impact Frontiers), participants will define the anatomy of their most important goals (including dimensions of Who, What, When, and Risk). We will look at how to manage gridlock between stakeholders and ensure your financial and impact objectives are not working against each other. You will leave with a clear, stress-tested definition of a key impact goal that serves as a reliable compass for your future decisions.
Founder, Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP)
Total Portfolio Project at Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP)
Why This Matters:
Many wealth holders feel stalled, not for lack of resources, but because of unseen dynamics such as family narratives, internal fears, market norms, or institutional inertia. 4D Mapping makes these dynamics visible and workable.
What To Expect:
Engage in a powerful, facilitated process that will enable you to see and sense your ecosystem differently and see new possibilities for change. Working on a real, current challenge offered by a case holder such as reshaping family investment, participants are invited to physically step into the system, embodying roles and forces shaping the situation in current reality and emerging future possibilities. Through this embodied exploration, hidden patterns surface, new insights emerge, and fresh pathways for action become felt, not just intellectually understood.
Observers gain parallel insights into their own journeys, often recognising where they, too, may be stuck and where unseen possibilities may lie.
Director, Burr Consulting
Why This Matters:
Insight without integration fades. This session ensures that the emotional and embodied breakthroughs of the day translate into clear intention and supported next steps.
What To Expect:
Hosted by leaders from global stewardship and impact networks, participants reflect on personal shifts, articulate who they are becoming as stewards, and identify one concrete commitment to explore in the next 90 days. Just as importantly, they discover the communities, collaboratives, and learning pathways that can support them, transforming individual clarity into collective momentum.
A collective pause to acknowledge the courage, vulnerability, and wisdom shared throughout the day. Participants are invited to see Day 2 not as an endpoint but as the beginning of a deeper stewardship journey with the CSP ecosystem.
Why This Matters:
Trust is the invisible infrastructure of impact. These dinners extend the day’s work into meaningful relationships that endure beyond the conference.
What To Expect:
Small, hosted dinners curated around shared themes—such as regenerative investing, family governance, or next-generation leadership to deepen connection and lay the groundwork for long-term peer support and collaboration.
Why This Matters:
Day 3 is where clarity meets commitment. Having gained systemic and personal insight in Days 1 and 2, participants now step into the real-world ecosystem where capital catalyses change. This day demystifies action showing wealth holders that they are not alone, that credible pathways already exist and that courageous capital is both learnable and practicable.
What To Expect:
Participants move through Singapore’s frontier innovation ecosystem, engaging directly with innovators, practitioners, and ecosystem builders who are shaping the future of climate, nature, and systems transformation.
Why This Matters:
Wealth holders often hesitate because the landscape feels fragmented or opaque. This session provides clarity and confidence.
What To Expect:
Leaders from government, research, venture building, and innovation labs share insights into Singapore’s priority themes such as climate resilience, circularity, regenerative systems, food and water innovation, and frontier technologies. Participants gain a mental map of who the credible players are, where capital is already flowing, and how to plug into collaboration pathways.
Why This Matters:
Seeing innovation up close transforms abstract interest into conviction.
What To Expect:
Participants are hosted inside a leading sustainability or impact project, engaging directly with founders, scientists, and operators. Through demonstrations, candid dialogue, and embodied sensing, they learn where capital unlocks progress, what constraints innovators face, and how trust and partnership are built on the ground.
Why This Matters:
Fear of ‘getting it wrong’ is one of the biggest barriers to action. This session replaces fear with a practical, values-aligned framework.
What To Expect:
Participants learn CSP’s Due Diligence Framework, designed specifically for catalytic capital, covering impact integrity, governance, team quality, scalability, and systemic relevance. Through live practice, participants learn what questions to ask, how to spot blind spots, and how to bring in the right experts and partners to support confident decision-making.
Why This Matters:
Courageous capital becomes real when it meets real opportunities.
What To Expect:
A curated showcase of early-stage, growth-stage, and community-rooted ventures illustrates different pathways for catalytic impact. Participants practise real-time due diligence, explore how their capital (financial and beyond) could unlock progress, and see how existing ecosystems support co-investment and collaboration.
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