Asean CSR

Prof. Eugene Tan

Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director,
Singapore Management University Centre for Scholars Development

An advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore, Eugene was educated at the National University of Singapore, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Stanford University where he was a Fulbright Fellow.

At the SMU, Eugene teaches courses on business ethics, CSR and corporate governance at the undergraduate, graduate (graduate diploma, MBA, and EMBA), and executive education levels. His other inter-disciplinary research interests include constitutional and administrative law, the mutual interaction of law and public policy, the government and politics of Singapore, and the regulation of ethnic conflict.

In 2007, Eugene was a member of the global taskforce that drafted the ‘Principles for Responsible Management Education (www.unprme.org), an initiative under the auspices of the United Nations to inspire and champion responsible management education, research and thought leadership globally.

Yanti Triwadiantini

Chair, ASEAN CSR Network

Yanti Triwadiantini is the Chair of the ASEAN CSR Network, a regional organisation launched in 2011 in line with the ASEAN Community 2015 Blueprint with a mandate to ensure that CSR is incorporated in the corporate agenda and contributes towards sustainable socio-economic development in ASEAN

She is also the Sustainability Adviser to the Executive Director of Indonesia Business Links, a not-for-profit organisation promoting and advocating good corporate citizenship in Indonesia, and a member of the Regional Working Group on Business Integrity, a group founded in 2014 with the objective of promoting business integrity in the ASEAN business community. She is also a Vice President for Learning with the Indonesia Global Compact Network.

Since 2000, she has been instrumental in designing programs, and fostering multi-sector partnership for various development initiatives in the areas of business ethics, anti-corruption, SME development, youth empowerment, water and sanitation, and responsible waste management.

She graduated with a Master of Philosophy degree in Environmental Science from Griffith University, Australia, and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Indonesia.

Gerard Forlin

Cornerstone Barristers in London, Denman Chambers in Sydney and Maxwell Chambers in Singapore 

Gerard has practised, consulted or lectured in over 50 countries. His broad practice covers:

• Civil, Criminal and Commercial Litigation: Professional discipline, product liability, consumer crime, commercial fishing (EU), licensing, corruption and bribery, construction, aviation, fraud and inquests.
• Environment: Oil and gas, environmental crime including water pollution and fishing quotas, and waste offences. He also acts for the Environment Agency on policy issues.
• Health and Safety Inquests and Inquiries: Public inquiries, human rights and inquests. He has been involved in over 300 fatality cases and has appeared in the vast majority of major cases in this field in the last ten years.
• Local Authority Governance and Services: Health and safety, healthcare, environmental matters and inquests
• Public Law and Judicial Review
• Regulatory Law: Corporate and gross negligence manslaughter, disaster litigation, aviation, railways, shipping, regulatory offences and diving.

In the last five years he has been ranked in no fewer than six areas in the leading independent directories including: Health and Safety, Product Liability, Crime, Public Inquiries and Inquests, Consumer Law and Environmental Law. He has been appointed to an International Mediation and Arbitration panel of 14 worldwide members for the Royal Aeronautical Society. There are only two QCs on this global panel. He is also Vice Chair of the Health and Safety Lawyers Association.

Gerard has undertaken a series of lectures for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the UN and ASEAN on the UK Bribery Act in Australia and all over Asia. He will be conducting more later in the year.

He has published over 100 articles and authored Corporate Liability: work related deaths and criminal prosecutions (3rd Edition) Bloomsbury (2014)” He appears regularly on TV and radio channels such as CNN, BBC and Sky.

Gerard was Special Adviser to the Bar Council on the Corporate Manslaughter Bill (2005), Consultant to a recent Global Aviation Concordat on Aviation Safety, Standing Counsel to numerous PLCs, Unions and Government Departments in the UK and abroad. Gerard also acts for Crown Departments on Crown Censure (occasional AG nomination) and is a Consultant to the Army, Governments and various police forces