Prof Lawrence Loh

Prof Lawrence Loh is Director, Centre for Governance and Sustainability (CGS) at the NUS Business School, National University of Singapore (NUS). He is also a Professor of Strategy and Policy at NUS Business School and Visiting Professor at the Wealth Management Institute in Singapore.

Prof Loh received a PhD in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His thesis on technology governance was awarded first prize in the worldwide doctoral dissertation competition in the field of management information systems.

At CGS, Prof Loh leads the Sustainability Reporting initiative covering ASEAN and Singapore corporations. He also steers the Singapore Governance and Transparency Index and the ASEAN Corporate Governance Scorecard projects. Prof Loh heads the studies on board and workplace diversity and business integrity.

Prof Loh is a regular commentator on governance and sustainability for many leading global and local media. Over the years, he has served as a judge for various prestigious sustainability awards in Asia and Singapore.

Prof Loh teaches Governance and Sustainable Business for NUS Executive MBA program. He regularly conducts executive development programs in governance, sustainability and strategy for board directors, senior management and business professionals.

Prof Lutfey Siddiqi

Lutfey was an executive committee member for foreign exchange, rates and credit at UBS investment bank with global responsibility for emerging markets. For over a decade, he has presided over international businesses across multiple cultures & jurisdictions, leading strategic relationships, business transformation, risk-supervision and culture initiatives. At UBS, he was also an inaugural member of the group sustainability council, the investment bank innovation board and the group-wide panel of ‘opinion leaders’ charged with strategic whitepapers and media outreach.

Lutfey obtained the Financial Times Non-Executive Directors’ Diploma (Masters-level) in 2017, having completed leadership courses at Harvard, Oxford and IMD. Currently, he is a Visiting Professor-in-Practice at the London School of Economics (IDEAS) where he previously served as a member of the Court of Governors and Investment Committee. He also sits on the Advisory Board of the Systemic Risk Centre. He is a member of the DC-based Bretton Woods Committee and the advisory board of OMFIF – Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum.

Lutfey serves on the World Economic Forum council on long-term investing and infrastructure. He has previously served on the council on the ‘future of financing’ and helped lead projects on global risks, capital markets, inclusive finance and impact investing. In 2012, the World Economic Forum named him a ‘Young Global Leader’. A CFA charterholder and former board member of CFA Singapore, Lutfey nowhelps CFA Institute develop alternative frameworks for the future of finance.

Lutfey is a founding member of the faculty at NUS Risk Management Institute where he remains an Adjunct Professor, teaching applied topics in risk management.

Amongst other things, Lutfey speaks and writes on the role of culture, diversity, constructive conflict and processin risk governance. He has an extensive media presence appearing on BBC, Fox Business, Financial Times, The Telegraph, Channel News Asia etc.

Ms Melissa Low

Melissa Low is a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions. She previously worked at the Energy Studies Institute, NUS where she carried out research projects on a range of energy and climate issues of concern to Singapore and the region. She has participated in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties (COP) for over a decade and is an active sustainability thought leader, authoring, publishing and presenting at various forums.

She is the Designated Contact Point for NUS’s accreditation to the UNFCCC and serves on the nine-member Steering Committee of the Research and Independent Non-Governmental Organisation (RINGO) Constituency under the UNFCCC. She is also is a Member of the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP) Long Term Aspirational Goal Task Group (LTAG-TG). Melissa holds an LLM in Climate Change Law and Policy (with distinction) from the University of Strathclyde, MSc in Environmental Management and BSocSci (Hons) in Geography from NUS. For her Master’s thesis on past and contemporary proposals on equity and differentiation in shaping the 2015 climate agreement, Melissa was awarded the Shell Best Dissertation Award 2013. She is currently pursuing a PhD part-time at the NUS Department of Geography.

In 2021, Melissa was conferred the NEA EcoFriend Award and the Public Service Medal (Pingat Bakti Masyarakat) for her contributions towards environmental sustainability, climate change awareness and impact on youth. She serves as Chair of the Climate Action SG Alliance, is an Advisory Committee Member for the MSE SG Eco Fund, a Council Member of the 16th and 17th National Youth Council and Committee Member of the Speak Good English Movement. She is also Chief Curator of the National Youth Council’s Young ChangeMakers Programme and a panellist on the Speak Good English Movement Programmes Evaluation Panel