(SCTP) Advanced Certificate in Driving Sustainability for the Future: The Future of Work through a Sustainable Lens

Helene Li, Co-Founder of GoImpact Capital Partners, is a seasoned management consultant and finance professional with senior roles at Boston Consulting Group, Willis Towers Watson, BNP Paribas, J.P. Morgan, and Lombard Odier. She spearheads sustainable finance initiatives, recognised as a top influencer in Fintech and Sustainable Finance by Thomson Reuters Refinitiv. Helene has been honored as Top 100 Women in Finance by FinTech Times and a Top 50 Global Fintech Leader. GoImpact platform, which she founded to promote Sustainable Finance, has partnered with organisations like Temasek Foundation and UNDP within its first year. A prominent speaker, Helene holds a First Class Honours degree in English and Economics from the University of Hong Kong.

James is the founding member of V-Plus Agritech Pte Ltd and is currently a Singapore Futures Fellow with the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. James combines his deep expertise in strategy & communications with qualifications in integrating ESG, sustainable finance and ESG reporting standards to drive climate action. He is currently scaling circular agriculture and is on the lookout for new opportunities to deliver environmental and social impact. James is an alumni of GoImpact’s SMU Advanced Certificate in Sustainability and Sustainable Businesses and was previously a course developer and reviewer in the Singapore Armed Forces masters-level professional military education programme, as well as the Head of Plans & Training for the SAF Volunteer Corps. He has obtained a Certificate in Sustainable Finance from the Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership.

Allen has more than 25 years of extensive experience in investment banking, venture investment and entrepreneurial startups. He has helped many entrepreneurs grow their business through mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, fund raisings and restructurings. A seasoned investment banker in established financial institutions such as DBS, OCBC and Daiwa Capital Markets, he spent most of his career in the financial industry, specialising in corporate finance services, with in-depth experience advising, executing and structuring M&A and IPO deals in Singapore and in the region. He has completed more than 40 deals with deal value totaling more than S$10 billion in diverse sectors spanning TMTs, financial, healthcare, energy, real estate, consumer and industrials. Allen currently provides consultancy and trainings for corporates, institutions and schools in the areas of corporate finance, investments and ESG. He has been awarded the CFA Institute Certificate in ESG Investing. Allen graduated with MBA from Chicago Booth School of Business, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst, Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst and Chartered Valuer and Appraiser.

A Chartered Engineer, Chin Joo started his career as a practising engineer and developed a keen sense of how engineering and science can be applied to solve real-world problems across different industries and disciplines. An educator at heart, he pivoted to the learning & development profession after nine years as an engineer, joining Nanyang Polytechnic as a lecturer. In his 20-year career with Nanyang Polytechnic, his experience spans teaching, course management, policy development, campus development, and sustainability. He was also the secretariat to the Board of Governors as well as the Senate in his role as the Deputy Registrar, handling matters relating to academic and organisational governance. He was awarded the Singapore Teachers' Union Gold Medal for emerging the top student in the Master of Arts (Education Management) in the Nanyang Technological University. He later progressed to earn his PhD in Education. Now as the Head of Content and Curriculum in GoImpact Capital Partners, Chin Joo hopes to play a role in advancing sustainability and accelerating the economy's transition to a net-zero world. 

Huw is an energy and environmental policy professional, with a strong focus on carbon market development in the greater China area. With 14 years’ experience working and studying in China, he has engaged extensively with environmental policymakers on climate change, renewable energy, fossil energy, environmental law, carbon finance, and low-carbon development. Currently he is an Energy and Climate Specialist at ClientEarth in Beijing, where he manages the EU-China Environment Project, fostering policy integration between China and the EU on environmental protection and the green economy. He previously worked on the EU-China Emissions Trading Cooperation Platform, the UK Prosperity Fund China Energy and Low Carbon Economy Programme, with the Chinese NGO Institute for Environment and Development, and with an Australian National University (ANU) team reporting on Climate Change and Fiscal Policy as part of the APEC Finance Ministers’ Policy Initiatives. He also previously served as Chair of the European Chamber of Commerce in China’s Carbon Market Working Group. Huw is the lead author of the annual China Carbon Pricing Survey reports, the most in-depth and extensive summaries of stakeholder views on China's carbon market development. He has published a range of widely read papers and reports, and speaks regularly at academic and business-oriented conferences.