{"id":17120,"date":"2025-09-23T16:59:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T08:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bschool.nus.edu.sg\/cgs\/?p=17120"},"modified":"2025-09-23T17:45:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:45:05","slug":"official-launch-of-wega-and-report-findings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bschool.nus.edu.sg\/cgs\/official-launch-of-wega-and-report-findings\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Launch of WEGA and Report Findings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Mr Chavalit Frederick Tsao (left), Chairman, TPC (Tsao Pao Chee) and Prof Lawrence Loh, Director, Centre for Governance and Sustainability at NUS Business School and Executive Director, WEGA, marked the official launch of WEGA on 18 September 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Well-being and EESG Alliance (WEGA)\u2014where EESG stands for Economics, Environmental, Social, and Governance\u2014was officially launched on 18 September 2025 at Impact Week 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bschool.nus.edu.sg\/cgs\/wega\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WEGA<\/a> is a partnership between TPC (Tsao Pao Chee) and the Centre for Governance and Sustainability (CGS) at NUS Business School. It began in 2024 with an MOU and has since advanced a shared agenda integrating sustainability and consciousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The launch marked a milestone in the collaboration, including research and dialogues to translate well-being principles into action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Report launch: An Asian Approach to the Well-Being of Nations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>WEGA, CGS and TPC jointly unveiled a research report \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/bschool.nus.edu.sg\/cgs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/145\/2025\/09\/WEGA_TPC_CGS_An-Asian-Approach-to-the-Well-being-of-Nations_2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">An Asian Approach to the Well-Being of Nations \u2013 Integrating Sustainability and Consciousness<\/a>\u201d at Impact Week 2025. Held at Suntec Singapore Convention &amp; Exhibition Centre, Impact Week is a well-being economic conference and festival co-organised by TPC and No.17 Foundation, respectively helmed by chairpersons Mr Chavalit Frederick Tsao and Ms Tai Sook Yee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"449\" src=\"https:\/\/bschool.nus.edu.sg\/cgs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/145\/2025\/09\/WEGAPostPic2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bschool.nus.edu.sg\/cgs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/145\/2025\/09\/WEGAPostPic2.jpg 602w, https:\/\/bschool.nus.edu.sg\/cgs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/145\/2025\/09\/WEGAPostPic2-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Prof Lawrence Loh, CGS Director and WEGA\u2019s Executive Director, presented the report findings to an audience on 16 September 2025 during Impact Week.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>What the report presents:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A well-being framework comprising well-being goals, the consciousness of caring for all, holistic change, and sustainability (EESG).<ul><li>Comparative case studies of China and Singapore demonstrating public-sector leadership.<\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A matrix of indicators for evaluating national well-being.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/bschool.nus.edu.sg\/cgs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/145\/2025\/09\/WEGA_TPC_CGS_An-Asian-Approach-to-the-Well-being-of-Nations_2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">full report<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bschool.nus.edu.sg\/cgs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/145\/2025\/09\/WEGA_TPC_CGS_An-Asian-Approach-to-the-Well-being-of-Nations_2025_Presentation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">presentation slides<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CGS and TPC have officially launched the Well-being and EESG Alliance (WEGA) and unveiled its inaugural research report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1186,"featured_media":17124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-wega"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - 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