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Chuan Seng Lee
Chair
Mr Lee is Chairman of Beca Asia, a leading engineering consultancy based in Singapore, and an Executive Director of the Beca Group, New Zealand. He has lived and worked in New Zealand, the Philippines, Indonesia and Singapore. In the 1990s, Mr Lee led the expansion of the Beca Asia business into Indonesia, Myanmar and Malaysia, and in the 2000s, into China. His international work experience also includes projects in Vietnam, Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Korea.
He was a Vice President of the Institution of Engineers Singapore for a number of years.
He is currently a Board Member of the Singapore Building and Construction Authority as well as the Professional Engineers Board. He has served several terms on these statutory bodies which regulate the construction industry and the engineering profession in Singapore.
In addition he currently chairs a number of industry committees, including the BCA Green Mark Advisory Committee which oversees the benchmarks for green building awards in Singapore, and the Technical Evaluation Panel for the Ministry of National Development’s S$50m R&D fund for applied research into environmentally sustainable technologies in construction. He also cochairs the BCA International Panel of Experts for Sustainability in the Built Environment.
He is the Founding President of the Singapore Green Building Council and also a member of the Committee for Environmental Sustainability of the Singapore Housing and Development Board.
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Yong Areecharoenlert
Yong Areecharoenlert is the President and Chairman of Thai listed company, Pakfood Public Company Limited. Pakfood employs about 4,000 staff and its core activities are the manufacturing and distribution of frozen foods such as prawns, crayfish and sea water shrimps. Some of the products such as steamed and fried dim sum, fried prawn and squids are then canned or “snap” frozen for immediate consumption. Most of these products are exported to the US, Japan, Australia and Europe.
Yong has also been the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Ecuador since 17 January 1995.
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James Castle
James is the founder of CastleAsia, a business consultancy specialising in market entry strategies, economic and political analysis and public policy advocacy, in association with PT Jasa Cita.
In nearly 30 years of work in Southeast Asia, James has advised in the establishment of over 25 foreign investment projects and acted as a consultant to many of the world's largest corporations as well as many of Indonesia's and Southeast Asia's largest business groups. In addition to his experience with private sector clients, James has also managed or been consultant to numerous projects for governments and international agencies including the World Bank, IFC, ADB, USAID and the Indonesian government.
James is currently Senior Advisor to the USAID project ‘Growth, Investment, Agriculture and Trade’. He was one of two foreigners appointed to Indonesia's thirty-member Tripartite Forum on Industrial Relations in 2001 and has convened numerous conferences and seminars on economic reform and public policy issues. He is active in the media through his interest in PT Jaring Data Interaktif, which operates two satellite television channels, Suara and Q-Channel. He has lived in Indonesia since 1977.
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Warrick Cleine
Warrick Cleine is joint Managing Partner of KPMG in Vietnam and Cambodia and head of the accounting and consultancy firm's Taxation Advisory and Market Entry groups.
A New Zealander, Warrick has been based in Vietnam since 1998 during which time he has advised many of Vietnam's leading companies on taxation, corporate governance, strategy and financial issues.
Warwick and his team have also advised many leading multi-national companies on their Vietnam market entry strategies.
He is a member of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants, a Vietnamese CPA, and sits on KPMG's Asia Pacific Board and Global Council. Warrick is also Chairman of the New Zealand Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam.
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John Lim Kok Min
John Lim Kok Min is the Executive Group Deputy Chairman of LMA International Ltd NV, and immediate past Chairman of Senoko Power and of Building & Construction Authority.
He has more than 40 years of senior management experience in the Asia-Pacific region and has held directorships and CEO roles in companies in Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
He currently sits on the board of several public listed and private companies. He is the President of the Singapore Institute of Directors, a member of the Governing Council of the Singapore Institute of Management, a member of the Securities Industry Council, Senate Member of the Marketing Institute of Singapore, and a former director/Council member of both the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce and the Singapore Confederation of Industries.
He is the Chairman for the OECD Asian network on Corporate Governance for State Owned Enterprises.
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Ian Spence
Ian Spence is a company director and business consultant in Southeast Asia. He holds directorships for several multinational companies and is a member of the Asia/Pacific Advisory Board for the International Baccalaureate.
A New Zealander, Ian is an accountant with 40 years’ international experience. He started his career with Barr, Burgess & Stewart (now Price Waterhouse Coopers) in Dunedin, and was a Manager with Price Waterhouse Peat in Ethiopia in the late 60s, marketing for IBM in Australia in the early 70s, and was Managing Director of Bowater Far East Ltd for the next 17 years.
The company’s interests during that time included merchant banking, agency trading, fast food restaurants, airport catering, paper packaging materials, and ready mix concrete.
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Dato’ Dr Michael Yeoh
Dato’ Dr Michael Yeoh is the Founder, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute, Malaysia’s leading private sector think tank. He is the Secretary-General of the ASEAN Business Forum, the Malaysia-China Business Council and the Corporate Malaysia Roundtable.
Michael is also the Chairman of Asia Pacific Partners and API Capital, which are private equity and investment consulting companies.
Michael has extensive boardroom and consulting experience over the past 30 years, specialising in corporate strategic planning, Asian leadership strategies and the political economy. He has consulted for the World Bank, the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, the Nomura Research Institute and the Economist Intelligence Unit.
He has also sat on the boards of directors of the National Heart Institute, SBB Asset Management (a subsidiary of Southern Bank and Malaysia’s second largest fund management company).
Michael has been a Principal Adviser to Southern Bank, General Manager of Multi-Purpose Holdings and Chief Administrative Director of the Malaysian Chinese Association.
