With the growing shareholder activism and increased scrutiny from the stakeholder community, organisations are pressed to firmly place ESG as a priority and long-term initiative on the board agenda. As a critical driver of financial growth and value, ESG provides a holistic view of the factors, impact, and efforts of organisations towards the environment, social, and governmental issues. In this webinar, we will explore how businesses and organisations can carry a full 360 approach to ESG, from integrating into business strategies, complying with regulations and standards, to measuring and reporting sustainability performance.
This webinar will examine:
A. The impact of ESG on Investing
- Why is ESG investing vital for investors?
- What are asset managers and investment companies looking for in organisations?
B. Integrating ESG into strategy
- How can organisations put ESG into strategy and into their frameworks?
C. ESG Reporting/Disclosures
- What are the key disclosures in sustainability reports?
- How do the recent regulations and standards improve transparency and accountability in sustainability disclosures?
- Will the new standards facilitate the move from voluntary to mandatory reporting?
D. ESG and Digitisation
- What is the role of technology in ESG integration—in implementation and reporting on ESG efforts and performance?
Event Speakers
Ms Sarah Keyes, CPA, CA
Chief Executive Officer
ESG Global AdvisorsSarah is an experienced ESG and climate change expert with over a decade of being a thought leader, consultant, facilitator, and auditor. As the CEO of ESG Global Advisors, Sarah regularly presents to Executive teams and Boards of Directors on the link between ESG and climate change with financial and operational performance and long-term value. Sarah also facilitates the establishment of ESG and climate change strategies that align with strategic priorities, enabling effective integration with existing risk and strategy processes. Sarah has a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University, ISO 14064-3 Certification for Greenhouse Gas Verifications, and received the 2018 Emerging Leader Award from CPA Ontario. She is a member of the Institute for Corporate Directors Climate Strategy Advisory Board for the Canadian Chapter of the WEF Climate Governance Initiative. Sarah sits on the Board of Directors of Leading Change and Sustainable Buildings Canada.
Mr. Lau Shih Hor
Chief Executive Officer
Elixir TechnologyShih Hor is the co-founder and CEO of Elixir Technology Pte Ltd, offering a full stack, low code platform for building Data Automation and Analytics applications. Shih Hor is instrumental in bringing their flagship product to many notable corporations in government and private sectors, both in their local Singapore market as well as overseas markets including US and Japan. As one of its strategic areas, Elixir is now co-creating an ESG solution with Azeus powered by its platform.
As part of the Executive Committee of SGTech, Singapore’s leading tech association, Shih Hor is actively involved in spearheading various sustainability initiatives particularly in ESG Reporting and Green Infrastructure.
Ms Tinuade Awe, ACIS
Chief Executive Officer
NGX Regulation LtdTinuade T. Awe is the Chief Executive Officer of NGX Regulation Limited (NGX RegCo), an independent regulatory subsidiary of Nigerian Exchange Group Plc (formerly known as The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE)). NGX RegCo is a self-regulatory organization (SRO) licensed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to provide regulatory services within the Nigerian Capital Market.
She is a life member of the Institute of Directors (IoD); and an Associate Member of both the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Nigeria (ICSAN), and the Institute of Capital Market Registrars (ICMR). Recently, she passed the examinations for membership of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS).
Ms. Awe graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) as the
Best Female Student, Faculty of Law and Best Student, Law of Evidence, from the Obafemi Awolowo University (1991); and finished at the Nigerian Law School with First Class Honors, graduating as Best Overall Student (1992). She holds Master of Laws (LL.M.) Degrees from Harvard Law School (2000), where she was a Landon H. Gammon Fellow; and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (1994), where she was a British Council Scholar. She is admitted to both the Nigerian and New York Bars. Ms. Awe is the recipient of a number of awards and honours, including the General Counsel of the Year Award at the 2018 African Legal Awards, and selection by the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) as one of twenty-one (21) Women Leaders of 2021.Dr Ashraf Gamal El Din
Chief Executive Officer
Hawkamah, The Institute for Corporate GovernanceDr. Ashraf Gamal El Din, FCG is the Chief Executive Officer of Hawkamah, the Institute for Corporate Governance, the DIFC. He is a Fellow and Certified Governance Expert from the Chartered Governance Institute, UK (ICSA). Dr. Ashraf is a Professor of Management, Faculty of Commerce, Cairo University. He holds a PhD degree from Manchester University, UK, and a master’s degree in Public Administration from Carleton University, Canada. He further holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Cairo University with highest honors.
Prior to joining Hawkamah, Dr. Ashraf was the Executive Chairman of Egypt Post and before that, the Deputy Executive Director of the Egyptian Banking Institute, the training arm of the Central Bank of Egypt. He was also the founder and Project Manager of the Egyptian Corporate Responsibility Center and the Executive Director of the Egyptian Institute of Directors (EIoD). Dr. Ashraf served as a board member and head of the Audit Committee in a number of listed, non-listed, State Owned and family owned companies and also served as a member of the General Assembly of the Holding Company for Transportation. Dr. Ashraf served as an advisor to the Minister of Investment 2004-2010 in the areas of corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, privatization and restructuring.
Alejandra Medina
Financial Economist – Corporate Governance and Corporate Finance Division
OECD Directorate for Financial and Enterprise AffairAlejandra Medina (PhD) is a Financial Economist in the Corporate Governance and Corporate Finance Division of the OECD Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affair. She leads the strategic design and implementation of the OECD Corporate Finance Division’s programmes to enhance relations with partner countries in Asia. She conducts work on capital markets and corporate governance issues, including corporate access to finance, institutional investors, ownership structure and market structures. She has published extensively on the ownership structure of listed companies around the world, and the functioning of capital markets and the conditions for companies to access market-based finance. She has been part of the OECD team advising Italy, Portugal, Croatia and Romania on how to make capital markets better serve the real economy. She also has been part of the team producing the Asia Equity Market Review that follows and analyses trends in Asian public equity markets. Referenced reports and related material can be found at OECD capital markets.
Prior to joining the OECD, Dr. Medina taught Corporate Finance at the University of British Columbia in Canada. She served previously as part of the capital markets advisory team at the Chilean Ministry of Finance, and worked as a financial analyst and corporate bond trader at Provida, a Chilean pension fund manager.
She holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of British Columbia (Canada), a M.Phil. in Financial Economics and a B.A. in Business Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica (Chile).
Moderator
Katherine Pamintuan
ESG Manager
Azeus Systems Philippines LimitedKatherine Pamintuan is currently the ESG Manager at Azeus Systems Philippines Limited. Prior to this, she worked at Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. (ISS) for 13 years, holding various roles within the ESG Corporate Ratings and Governance Operations Data Team. She most recently held the position of VPfor ESG Corporate Ratings at ISS-ESG, the responsible investment arm of ISS, until October 2021. Her work experience includes analysis of public company disclosures and review of data to provide ESG rating/scoring for various companies, as well as
analysis of Corporate Governance practices. She is also a seasoned team manager, with experience in managing team performance and providing support for development. She was also co-lead of ISS’ Manila Sustainability
Committee (2020), promoting sustainability initiatives for that firm’s Manila office.Katherine holds a B.S. Business Management degree from the University of the Philippines.
