Annah Davis, Municipal Officer, Prik Municipality Office, Thailand

Annah works for Prik Municipality, a local government in Thailand in the province of Songkhla. She is responsible for providing public services, such as Social Welfare, Public Health, and Environmental Protection, to local communities on citizen participation.

She has previously worked in other municipalities, namely in the Sadao Municipality and Patong Municipality. Her experience includes research and development, public relations, policy analysis and planning, annual budgeting, monitoring and evaluation.

Anna envisions the ASEAN CSR Fellowship programme will enable her to exchange learning on how to help communities to bring about social change and improve the quality of life in their local area, by adopting to the various ASEAN models of CSR.

She graduated from the Prince of Songkla University, Thailand with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration. Her passion is to promote active citizenry in her local community. She speaks Thai and English.

Cathy is interested to learn from organisations that steward their resources, talents and time to do business better, to serve the community and to be profitable at the same time. She loves creating different forms of content to help organisations tell better stories about themselves. She is passionate about supporting social enterprises.

Cathy dreams to start a social enterprise to help the elderly in Singapore age better while enjoying a higher quality of life.

Chansouk Insouvanh, Social Safeguards Consultant, Freelance (Currently with Asian Development Bank)

Chansouk is a Freelance Senior Social Safeguards Consultant, currently working part-time as a Social Development/Resettlement Specialist for the Asian Development Bank (ADB), providing support to ensure compliance with social safeguard policies in the processing and administration for projects in Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar. She also works part-time for the project “Citizen Engagement for Good Governance, Accountability and Rule of Law” (CEGGA), which is jointly funded by the European Union, Switzerland and Germany, and implemented by GIZ.

She holds a Master of Sciences in Environmental Policy and Planning and a Master of Arts in Development Studies from Ohio University, USA through the Fulbright Scholarship Programme, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Development Studies and a Certificate in Women Studies from Flinders University, Australia through the Australian Development Aid Programme.

She has a development vision that involves the building of a long-term harmonious partnership so that both (all) sides gain mutual benefits. Her core value is to perform competently so as to yield quality results. Her work mostly deals with complex political and social issues, especially in relation to good governance, civil society, social integrity, as well as the moralities and safeguards of people of ethnic groups.

Dorothy is the Corporate Communication Manager of Swire Pacific Offshore (SPO), a marine services conglomerate headquartered in Singapore. She is in-charge of international and external communication and formulates community partnerships as part the Company’s corporate giving and sustainability efforts.

Prior to joining SPO, Dorothy worked in the Singapore Maritime Foundation as the Senior Corporate Communications Manager for five and a half years, spearheading strategies to raise the profile of the maritime industry and to attract young talents. Before that, she worked for the National Museum of Singapore as the Corporate Communications Manager for seven years.

Beyond work, Dorothy believes in sharing her work expertise for meaningful causes and has volunteered for Club Rainbow and Humanitarian Services for Children in Vietnam (HSCV), among others. She is an associate member of the Raleigh Society and the Chairperson of the Arts and Culture Committee of Central Singapore District. An avid traveller, she enjoys exploring places off the beaten track and her travel stories are regularly published in the local newspapers.

Dorothy holds a Bachelor of Communication Studies (Hons) in Public Relations and Public Communications from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and is a member of the Company of Good Fellowship programme in Singapore.

Fernando  is a licensed urban planner, 37 years of age, and currently enrolled in the doctorate program of the University of the Philippines School of Urban and Regional Planning (UP SURP).

He has a Master's Degree in Urban and Regional Planning, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Development Studies. He also has a certificate in Urban Transport Planning and Management from UP SURP.

His core competencies include program development and management, formulation of shelter plans and other local and regional development plans, partnership building, resource mobilization, knowledge management, and policy formulation.

Hazel is part of the Corporate Responsibility team in Hilton. Working alongside stakeholders across the business and external partners, she drives the development and activation of the company's global corporate responsibility strategy - Travel with Purpose™ across more than 200 hotels in Asia Pacific.

Hazel graduated from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore with a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Studies (Hons).

Helen Maureen Vallador  Graido,    Senior Associate, Abad Alcantara and Associates

Helen is a trade and investment lawyer, whose practice is guided by the values of inclusive progress and societal development. As a Senior Associate of Abad Alcantara and Associates, she is committed to promoting and enforcing competition, innovation, and integration.

She served as a participant in the bicameral conference on the Philippine Competition Law and a technical consultant for the Philippine Innovation Bill. Throughout her career, she continues to be actively involved in her advocacies, including electoral reform and capacity-building through entrepreneurship.

For Helen, ASEAN entrepreneurs and business policy officers must work to remove trade barriers to entry, promote expansion of risk sharing and mitigation mechanisms for investments, all dedicated to fulfill developmental goals and address regional key issues – human rights, environment and citizen-centric governance.

She holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law.

Hong Lina, Sustainability Officer, Grandis Timber Commercial Reforestation Company

Hong Lina is a Sustainability Officer at Grandis Timber, a leading private commercial reforestation company, Cambodia. She is responsible for executing social responsibility (CSR), maintaining Forest Stewardship Council certification (FSCTM) and managing conservation area.

Additionally, she is also involved in the company’s Corporate Integrity System to ensure that the company complies with Business Integrity standards and corruption is not committed.

She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Biology and Master's Degree in Biodiversity Conservation from the University Royal of Phnom Penh.

Through the Fellowship, she hopes to gain knowledge and greater understanding of responsible business concepts and relevant tools which can be utilized for the implementation of corporate social responsibility.

Ireneo is the President and Co-Founder of YGOAL Inc - a social enterprise providing consultancy service to various organizations including non-government organizations and corporate social responsibility of companies.

He is a program consultant to CSRs of BPI Foundation, Makati Medical Center Foundation and North Luzon Renewables among others. He has managed international projects funded by USAID, Spanish Embassy, US Embassy, Oxfam-Hivos, Embassy of Netherlands, other international NGOs and multinational companies. He is also a lecturer for Inquirer Academy on Corporate Social Responsibility and Resource Mobilization.

He is passionate about education, youth development and social enterprise. He is a social entrepreneur who uses creativity and entrepreneurial mindset to revolutionize change in organizations, companies and even at a personal level.

Khoa is an active enthusiast with strong passion and experience in the field of CSR and sustainable development. He is currently working as a Management Trainee – under a fast track programme to develop potential individuals to become leaders within 2 years - for FrieslandCampina, a leading dairy company in Vietnam with the mission of nourishing by nature.

Prior to this, he used to be employed by foreign missions, namely the U.S General-Consulate and Royal Danish Embassy in Vietnam as a commercial assistant where he gained hands-on knowledge in terms of good CSR practice of many well-known MNCs, such as Maersk, Novo Nordisk, and Intel.

Khoa is also a former participant of SSEAYP organized by Japanese cabinet office and UGRAD – a global scholarship sponsored by Department of States. As a graduate from Foreign Trade University in Ho Chi Minh City with a major in International Finance, Khoa aspires to combine community service or social work with what international corporates can bring to the table, to create a win-win relationship and provide better lives to people in need.

Lucius is currently the Division Head of Enhancing Livelihood Programme for Unilever Indonesia Foundation. Since joining the organisation in 2015, he is involved in managing purpose and sustainability programmes for Unilever Indonesia.

He works closely with the Marketing and Supply Chain teams to embed the sustainability to the business. Dinto leads sustainable business initiatives related to smallholder farmers' development and women's empowerment.

Previously, Dinto worked in public relations for Unilever Indonesia, General Motors Indonesia, Alcatel-Lucent Indonesia. Before that, he joined IndoPacific Edelman as a communications consultant.

He earned Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the Swiss German University.

Mach Ton has been a Manager, Country Compliance at DKSH (Cambodia) Ltd since October 2015. He is in-charge of compliance matters for all business units such as Healthcare, FMCG, Technology, Fashion and Performance Material and is also an active member of CSR Platform Cambodia.

His role includes developing compliance and ethics policies, conduct bribery risk and corruption assessment, perform compliance reviews, assess third party risk, conduct compliance training, and investigate in the case of compliance breach. He performs compliance networking with top 10 clients for each business unit and local compliance associations and communities, such as EuroCham, Pharma Association, Transparency International, CAMFEBA, and CSR (Oxford), to build and share the knowledge of compliance policy frameworks and learn from each other on the opportunities to promote business integrity and corporate social responsibility for Cambodia.

Prior joining the compliance function, Mach served as a Business Line Manager for Novartis-Pharma in DKSH (Cambodia) Ltd since January 2011. Before that, he used to work in the commercial functions in the healthcare business, such as Ethical, OTC, Vaccines and Cosmetics.

Mach has an MBA (Management) from Norton University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Management from the National University of Management.

Maliya is currently working as a Deputy Project Manager of Lao-German Consulting & Construction Company. She is responsible for budget and project management, worker safety and environment.

She graduated with the Master's Degree in Natural Resources Management and Development in Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany. After graduation, she developed a strong interest in environmental protection and conservation.

Apart from her work in the corporate sector, she is also an external environmental consultant for Foundation of Community Development and Environmental Conservation (FCEC), where she has provided advice and assistance on doing environmental and social research as well as project management and fund raising.

With working experience in both private sector and NGO, she has learnt that the sectors are connected and have an either direct or indirect impact to each other. Maliya is very passionate on studying the integration between CSR practices and environment, and she would like to adapt the learning knowledge of CSR to develop the organizations she is involved in.

Mar Veran is a certified ISSP Sustainability Associate (the third Filipino and one of the first 300 sustainability professionals worldwide to get this certification from International Society of Sustainability Professionals) and a Licensed Civil Engineer who has over ten years of experience managing projects in various areas of practice including capacity building, training and workshops, events management, stakeholders engagement, coordination (national government agencies, local government units, businesses, non-profit organizations, civil societies, universities, etc.), knowledge management, sustainable eco-tourism, sustainability reporting, corporate and public sector greenhouse gas inventories, cities and national greenhouse gas accounting and reporting, and sustainable design and analysis of different structures such as industrial, commercial and residential buildings and infrastructures.

Currently, Mar is handling multiple job roles from different organizations, namely International Consultant at Global Green Growth Institute, Director and Sustainability Consultant at SEED Institute, Sustainable Structural Engineering Consultant at DCCD Engineering Corporation, Deputy Project Leader at TagBalay Foundation, and Sustainable Design and Innovation Manager at Habitat for Humanity Philippines. Concurrently, he is the Corporate Secretary and Chief Financial Officer at Natural Wonders Tourism Foundation – Philippines, Corporate Secretary and Chief Financial Officer at SEED Institute and Assistant Chief Financial Officer at TagBalay Foundation.

Mardian serves as a senior consultant at Kiroyan Partners, a corporate communications and public affairs consulting firm based in Jakarta, Indonesia. He has developed his interest and expertise in community development, stakeholder engagement,  public  relations and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) through a combination of professional career, academic study and consulting. These experiences have enabled him to grasp in-depth familiarity with the intersection of business, social and environmental dynamics. He has worked with many clients from diverse sectors, such as chemical industry, financial services, power generation, mining, oil and gas as well as international development aid.

Mardian started his career in PT Indominco Mandiri, a coal-mining subsidiary of PT Indo Tambangraya Megah Tbk. He then undertook part-time internship at CSR International and pursued postgraduate studies in New Zealand. While in New Zealand, Mardian held the position of Research Assistant at the School of Environment and Geography in the University of Auckland.

After returning from New Zealand, Mardian dived into the CSR consulting industry undertaking a Project Manager position at PT Interdev Prakarsa.

Maria Anastasia De Souza, Stakeholder Relations Executive PETRONAS

Maria Roxanne Lu is the Director, Programs and Projects Unit of the Makati Business Club (MBC), a non-profit business organization based in Manila, Philippines. She earned her Bachelor's Degree in Economics at the Ateneo de Davao University.

Part of her work is to manage the research and policy advocacy arm of MBC, which requires working with business leaders, government officials and civil society groups. She has been involved in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) as a Programs Officer of the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) Philippines from 2011 until the end of the Philippine hosting year of APEC in 2015. Her work area is on policy and economic research as well as designing and implementing programs focused on national development.

In the early years of her career, Roxane served as a research officer at the Mindanao Business Council, where she contributed in good governance projects as well in the trade and investment work of the BIMP-EAGA Business Advisory Council Philippines.

In her spare time, she competes in international Ultimate Disc tournaments and conduct disc clinics to children and young professionals in an active effort to promote fun and fitness.

Khoi obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and Banking and a Master’s Degree in Economics from the Banking University of Ho Chi Minh City. He has been working for Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (Vietinbank) since 2009, and was appointed as a Manager of Corporate

Banking Department of Vietinbank - Branch No.6 Ho Chi Minh City.

His main responsibilities include managing and supervising 16 subordinates, building business strategies for the annual growth targets, maintaining a close relationship with current corporate clients and attracting new clients, and conducting on-the-job training for subordinates. He acquired fundamental knowledge about CSR issues through considerable discussions with various corporate clients.

When appraising clients for approving loans, he also pays attention to how they are involved in various aspects of CSR, such as environmental protection, labour policy, sustainable development, human rights in order to make right decisions of offering loans. As CSR is currently a main concern of Vietnam-based banks, especially Vietinbank, his current concerns include maintaining better work-life balance for staff, and simplifying loan procedures and improving access to financial support to SMEs.

His personal motto is, “Work smart in silence and let success be your noise.”

Ni Ni Win is Deputy Team Leader at IPE Global Limited. In her current role, she is responsible for the Evidence and Learning component of the Supporting Partnership for Accountability and Civic Engagement (SPACE) program funded by DFID.

Her professional experience includes coordinating and collaborating with various government sectors, public institutions, local, sub-national and national community on HIV/AIDS prevention, care and counseling, child protection and matters pertaining to child rights governance. Her area of expertise includes program development and emergency project management.

She brings in a wealth of experience, expertise and dedication to strengthen the capacity of civil societies organisations (CSOs) in Myanmar. Ni Ni served in roles both across civil society sectors and the private sectors. She also worked at a nationwide CSO network to improve transparency and accountability of Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI), Myanmar in coordinating, facilitating and close collaboration with government and private sector representatives.

Prior to this, she has worked for Population Services International, Save The children and Plan International.

Ni Ni contributed her expertise in strengthening and building skills and capacities for CSOs to improve policy advocacy, evidence researches, and increase citizen participation for better social impact at Volunteer Service Overseas.

Rhea Sianipar, Vice President Corporate & External Affairs, PT NS BlueScope Indonesia

Rhea Sianipar is the Vice President of Corporate and External Affairs at PT NS BlueScope Indonesia, which is one of the leading coated steel manufacturing companies in the world.

Rhea has over fifteen years of experience working in marketing communication, media, industry and government affairs, and sustainability. Prior to joining BlueScope, she held various positions in the telecommunications, biotechnology agriculture, and fast-moving consumer goods industries. She has been involved in several industry associations, not just to promote industry issues but also collaborate on business ethic to ensure sustainable business.

Rhea took her Diploma at the University of Indonesia and Bachelor of Economics at the University of PERBANAS. In addition to her professional work, Rhea serves in her community by mentoring the youth and also serves as a volunteer in HOPE Worldwide's programs to support the poor and the needy. Through the Fellowship, she looks forward to exchanging insights and business practices, as well as building an ASEAN network.

She currently resides in Jakarta with her husband, Johannes Hutapea, and their two kids Jordan, six years old, and Rae, three years old. She enjoys traveling, singing, cooking, and trying new food recipes.

Sonedalinh Phoumvongxay is a Programme Analyst for Governance and Poverty Reduction at UNDP Country Office, and a Deputy Director of DS Design and Consulting Sole Co. Ltd.

Prior to joining UNDP, she was a Programme Officer at Oxfam Lao PDR, mainly responsible for citizen inclusive development projects, an Administrative Assistant at World Health Organisation (WHO), a Secretary for International Rice Research Institute at Mekong sub-region office, and Community Development Officer for a Solid Waste Management project for Vientiane.

Her area of expertise includes community development, programme design and management. Sonedalinh holds a Master’s Degree in Development Practice from the University of Queensland, Australia.

Vilavanh Maniphousay started her career at the Ministry of Education and Sports, Laos. Her daily work then was to coordinate with both private and government sectors concerned, and to assist the Project Manager in the Luang Prabang National University Establishment Project.

Her second job was with Indochina Bank. She was a teller at the Department of Customer Representative Service. She worked there for a year before taking the chance to work with her current company, Banque Fraco-Lao Co Ltd (BFL).

Her work at BFL started at the Back Office Department. She held that position for three years, before getting promoted to take on a heavier responsibility. Currently, she is working on the Banking on Women Project, which aims to promote assess to financial services and non-financial services for Lao women.

Vilavanh has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the National University of Laos.

Vu Thi Kim Chi, Lecturer, International Business Banking Academy of Vietnam

Kim Chi is a lecturer teaching undergraduate courses on international finance, business environment and business strategy in International Business Faculty – Banking Academy of Vietnam.

Prior to that, she earned a Bachelor's Degree in International Business and Economics in Foreign Trade University and took a job as a Marketing-Administration Intern for the American Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam afterwards, where she had the chance to work with key partners ranging from government bodies, civil societies to academia.

After receiving a scholarship to undertake a Master's Degree in International Business Management in the University of Huddersfield in England, she gained particular interest in a module known as Corporate Governance and Business Ethics. The increased interest in Business Ethics in specific and International Business in general spurred her to pursue the career of teaching.

Described as a fighter, an educator and a feminist, Yu Wai Maung is a dedicated and passionate professional with almost a decade of experience in non-profit management and gender equality, coupled with a personal commitment to stand up and speak out against body shaming and domestic violence.

She is a self-love activist and an advocate for women’s rights, mental wellness and healthy lifestyle. Currently, Yu Wai is the Head of CSR Department at KBZ Bank, the largest bank in Myanmar. She is responsible for employee and stakeholder engagement, developing company-wide approach for disaster risk reduction and management system.

Aside from her full-time job, she is a motivational speaker. Yu Wai’s authentic style of motivational speech comes from her willingness to share and make fun of her own flaws. Through her own efforts to break free from fear of failure and disappointments, she inspires others to do the same and unlock their hidden emotional intelligence.

Yu Wai holds a Post-Graduate Degree in Non-Profit Management from the New School University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Women and Gender Studies from City University of New York.