The changing face of leadership crisis and opportunity
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JIMMY (TUAN) PHAM
Jimmy Pham is the Founder and CEO of KOTO International, a not-for-profit vocational training program and restaurant. KOTO (Know One, Teach One) started as a small sandwich shop in Hanoi, giving nine street kids jobs, skills and most importantly, hope for a better life. KOTO is now a 120-seat restaurant, registered charity and highly regarded vocational training program, where its students learn the hospitality skills that will become the silver bullet to end the cycle of poverty. The 24-month program teaches English, health, hygiene, sports, and community and other life skills. These necessary skills will not only empower the KOTO students for life, but give them dignity and pride. The KOTO program is an internationally-recognized training centre through Australia's Box Hill Institute of TAFE, and is renowned locally as the premier training institution by all major hotels and international restaurants in Vietnam. In 2005, ABC Australia aired the program "Jimmy's Kitchen,"
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which was viewed by an audience of millions. In 2006, Jimmy received the prestigious James Strong Outstanding Leadership Award for his achievements. Jimmy's vision is that the KOTO concept will be replicated throughout Vietnam and Asia, giving thousands more street kids hope, dignity and the life changing skills that KOTO has brought to the streets of Hanoi.
MITCHELL PHAM
Mitchell Pham is co-founder of the Augen Software Group. Born in Vietnam, Mitchell Pham first came to New Zealand as a refugee at the age of 13. Since its founding in 1993, the Augen Software Group now encompasses a number of companies in both New Zealand and Vietnam. Today, Mitchell works as a strategy advisor to a number of organizations with high-growth potential and innovation opportunities. He also advises in a number of New Zealand-Asia government initiatives, trade missions, and research projects. Mitchell is currently a member of the Action Asia Advisory Group, a team that advises the New Zealand government on business sector engagements with countries of Asia. He is also an active Asia 21 Fellow, a member of the Vietnam Strategic Ventures
supporter of the Asia-New Zealand Foundation and of efforts to encourage New Zealand organizations to engage more with Asia. He also supports not-for-profit organizations in the community healthcare/disability/social services sector and the fitness industry. Mitchell studied information and communications technology at university.
TRUC PHAM-DINH
Truc Pham-dinh is the Head of the Department of Power Machines and Equipment for the Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Vietnam National University. After living and studying in Australia and the UK for 10 years, Truc went back to Vietnam with a PhD in Electrical Engineering. He now teaches at Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City and was the youngest Head-of-Department at a Vietnamese university when appointed in 2006. Truc is an energetic leader, educator and scientist. He has facilitated international collaborative relationships between universities as well as multinational industries, such as the collaboration with
Emerson Network Power (USA), for an on-campus engineering design centre, the first of its kind in Vietnam. He established the National Committee for Vietnam's Open Courseware, a project for modernization of higher education in Vietnam, funded by the Vietnam Education Foundation USA (www.vef.gov). He also pioneered an international project to develop a research and education centre for sustainable energy in the Indochina region.
MEI PIN PHUA
Phua Mei Pin is Deputy Director (Industry) in the Singaporean Ministry of Trade and Industry, where she has been tasked to bring to fruition two multi-billion dollar integrated casino resorts. These unprecedented developments are expected to create 60,000 jobs economy- wide and contribute 1.6 percent of GDP. Besides facilitating the success of the projects, she makes sure she can sleep at night by tackling the security and social imperatives to preserve the character of a country where casinos were banned for over 40 years. In a multi-faceted public service career, Mei Pin has performed as a diplomat covering the Malaysia, Brunei, Middle East and Central Asia desks, represented Singapore at the 61st United Nations General Assembly, served as General Manager of a municipal Government department, and developed and rolled out a public service reform agenda in the Prime Minister's Office. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard with a degree in literature, but the public service gave her a job anyway. She serves on the committees of several charitable organizations.
Jia Ping is Chief Executive Director and Founder of Global Fund Watch (China Initiative), a watchdog nongovernmental organization that combats AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. He is also the Chief Lawyer for the Project of Friends, which is the leading MSM Network on the Chinese Mainland and recently received the UNAIDS award for its contributions to fighting AIDS. He also served on the experts’ committee for HIV/AIDS of China’s Center for Disease Control. Jia is a tireless advocate for the rights of people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS, sex workers, migrant people, drug users, and homosexuals. He aims to bring the rights of these socially marginalized groups under Chinese constitutional law into accord with international standards. Jia also served as executive director of Tsinghua University’s human rights and constitutional law center, and as the
schools and was a visiting scholar at the Columbia University Center for the Study of Human Rights in 2005.
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TONY PUA
Tony Pua is the Member of Parliament for Petaling Jaya Utara under the Democratic Action Party (DAP). He was also elected the DAP National Publicity Secretary and heads the party's Economic Policy Bureau. Before joining politics full-time in January 2007, he was the CEO of a Malaysian IT company which he founded in March 1997, just before the Asian Financial Crisis. He successfully listed the company on the Singapore Exchange in August 2001 and became the youngest CEO-founder of a listed company in Singapore at the age of 29. Tony has since divested all his shares in the company to serve the community and take part in socio-political affairs of Malaysia. Tony graduated with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Keble College, Oxford University on a
scholarship from MTC Foundation.
PRITI RADHAKRISHNAN
Priti Radhakrishnan is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Initiatives For Medicines, Access & Knowledge (I- MAK), a team of lawyers and scientists working with governments, scientists, procurers, and suppliers to strengthen patent systems. The team conducts pharmaceutical patent analysis to encourage innovation in new medicines while also assuring broad access to the best and latest treatments. Her recent accomplishments include working with the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative and the World Health Organization on issues of intellectual property and access to treatment. In 2008, Priti was awarded the Echoing Green Fellowship for social entrepreneurs and was named a Pop!Tech Social Innovation Fellow. Along with her Co-Director at I-MAK, she has worked on issues impacting several countries, including India, the Philippines, Malaysia, China, Brazil,
Nigeria and Mexico. Prior to founding I-MAK, she served as the Senior Project Officer of the Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit in India. She obtained her law degree from the New York University (NYU) School of Law and has worked as a health attorney in the US, Switzerland and India. Her work as a public health advocate has merited recognition: she recently coordinated the efforts of TEAM VINAY – a movement that registered 25,000 new bone marrow donors in the South Asian American community, which received the National Marrow Donor Program's Lieutenant General Frank E. Peterson Jr. award for innovation and commitment to minority recruitment & retention of bone marrow donors.
LAKSHMAN NAMAL RAJAPAKSA
Lakshman Namal Rajapaksa is the Chairman of the Tharunyata Hetak (Aspiring Youth) program. His credo in life is to bring peace to Sri Lanka starting with the nation's youth; instilling patriotism and universal harmony to bring everyone together. Even though most Sri Lankan youth come from different backgrounds, Namal is determined to put aside immaterial differences like religion, caste, race, social standing and financial status to strengthen peace and unity in Sri Lanka. Hailing from a notably political family (his father, the Honorable Mahinda Percy Rajapaksa, is the sixth president of Sri Lanka, and his mother, Shiranthi Rajapaksa, was Miss Ceylon 1978), he has always been at the forefront to help people and offer solutions to problems that are ever-present in this modern day. He travels around the world extensively and participates in many youth-related events by spearheading the Aspiring Youth program. Having started community development work ever since he was 16 years, he is at the forefront of achieving as much as he can for Sri Lankan youth. Presently, Namal is finishing a law degree at a prestigious university in London.
SANTHOSH RAMDOSS
Santhosh Ramdoss is a Program Manager at BRAC, the world's largest anti-poverty organization with its roots in Bangladesh. At BRAC, he is currently a key resource in a $20 million development initiative in Uganda, impacting the lives of 1.5 million people. Santhosh is also the co-founder of ProGreen, a fast-growing social business which manufactures eco-friendly disposable tableware in rural India. The venture has won multiple international business plan competitions and currently exports products to buyers in Europe and the United States. Santhosh is also the founding editor at thinkchangeindia.org, India's leading blog on social entrepreneurship and social innovation. He graduated with an MBA from Bharathidasan Institute of Management, one of the top business schools in India and with an MPA from NYU Wagner. At NYU, he received the Jo Ivey Boufford award for innovation in recognition of his efforts in identifying cross-sectoral
solutions for social change, and also the Howard G. Newman Award for exemplary work done by a capstone team. He was also a Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship at NYU.
KATHLEEN REEN
Kathleen Reen is the Vice President for Asia, Environment and New Media Programs with Internews, an international non-profit media development organization devoted to increasing access to information for people worldwide. She oversees projects across Asia countries including China, Thailand and Afghanistan
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and has worked on media and development projects throughout Asia since 1998, when she founded Internews’s media support program in Indonesia. She has led research, training, and grant-giving initiatives including efforts to support the rebuilding of Timor’s devastated media environment and the establishment of a national media assistance program in Pakistan. In 2005, she worked with dedicated teams of professionals and volunteers providing urgent information via radio and satellite to populations affected by the tsunami in Indonesia and Sri Lanka. Kathleen’s first overseas assignment was in Cambodia in 1993, where she was the youngest registered journalist to cover the U.N.-sponsored elections. She was deployed to the Balkans with the UN Peacekeeping (UNPROFOR) in 1994 and reported on the war in Bosnia. She was a founder-coordinator of the Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) and in 2007 became a fellow of the Flow Fund, a three-year program in “venturesome philanthropy” that aims to increase the number of philanthropists worldwide.
MICHAEL RIADY
Michael Riady works with his family's organization, the Lippo Group, with assets over US$10 billion and a business presence throughout the Asian region. For the last six years, Michael has been mainly involved in the Real Estate Group, managing over US$2.5 billion worth of developments in Indonesia alone. He holds several senior managing director positions in the group and oversees the whole operation aspects of a development from acquisition, permits, design, concepts, marketing, finance, and construction. Michael has experiences in retail malls, residential, hotels, office and mixed-use developments. He is also involved in the business development side, seeking real estate opportunities globally. Michael previously worked with Fidelity Investments, Independent Capital Management, and Manatt, Phelps & Phillips law firm in
He received his Bachelors from California State University, Fullerton, and is a candidate of the UCLA-NUS Executive MBA School.
PIR MUHAMMAD SADIQ
Pir Muhammad Sadiq is Chairman of Hazrat Sultan Oliya Foundation and Pir Gul Hassan Shah Trust. These two organizations support free medical camps, educational scholarships, safe drinking water projects, and, through an NGO (NISHAT Welfare Organization), they have sanitation and community development works under way. At the age of 17, Muhammad inherited 5,000 acres of agricultural estate from his late father in the Sindh province of Pakistan and became the spiritual leader of the Luari Jamat (community) of two million people, mainly Sufi Muslims and Hindus spread in three major provinces of Pakistan,(Sindh, Punjab, and Balochistan) and across the globe. Along with managing his estate, in 2000 he established new lines of business which include coal mining, power generation, livestock, construction, and commodity trading. Presently, he is Founder and Chairman of The Luaripak Group which includes the following main companies: 150MW Dir
Hydro Power Project (Pvt) Ltd., 50MW Luaripak Energy (Pvt) Ltd., a wind power company, and 200MW Badin Electric Power Company (Pvt) Ltd., a thermal project. These three above mentioned projects are at various development stages. M/S Luaripak Investments (Pvt) Ltd., a construction and commodity trading company, successfully imported 35,000MT of Urea for the Trading Corporation of Pakistan in 2005. Asian Mining (Pvt) Ltd. holds the rights over 2,000 acres of coal mines at Lakhra Fields Sindh, Pakistan. Pak-Emirates Livestock (Pvt) Ltd. manages 1000 cattle heads at Qazi Ahmed Sindh, Pakistan. Muhammad received his BA in Pakistan.
LOBSANG SANGAY
Lobsang Sangay is a Research Fellow at the East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. Lobsang earned his Doctorate in law, and Masters degree from Harvard Law School, and did his LLB and BA (Honors) from Delhi University, India. He was a recipient of the 2004 Yong K. Kim' 95 Prize of Excellence for his doctoral dissertation and received a Fulbright Fellowship to study at Harvard Law School. In his Track II Initiative, Lobsang has organized five unprecedented conferences between Chinese and Tibetan scholars, including an unprecedented meeting between HH the Dalai Lama and 35 Chinese scholars at Harvard University in 2003. As an expert on Tibet, international human rights laws, democracy and conflict resolution, he has been consulted by the news media, including BBC, Washington Post, Far Eastern Economic Review, and The Boston
Globe and has published articles about the Tibetan issue in the Harvard Asia Quarterly and Journal of Democracy, to name a few.
JOTHIMANI SENNIMALAI
Jothimani Sennimalai serves in the Office of the National Secretary of the Indian Youth Congress. As a young girl inspired by the ideals of Gandhiji's Gram Swaraj (Village Self Rule), she seized the opportunity to work for the development of her village. Starting as an elected civic representative at the age of 22, she served 10 years in that capacity, deepening her socio-political work with poor and marginalized people. In a national talent search within the party, Jothimani was identified for her potential and was promoted to her
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current position. She works with a committed team of leaders in revamping the Indian Youth Congress - to democratize, to motivate youth, cultivate leadership in the cadre and youth of India.
DURREEN SHAHNAZ
Durreen Shahnaz is Head of the Programme on Social Innovation and Change and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY School) at the National University of Singapore. Durreen has been a changemaker throughout her career which has spanned both the social and private sector. As a successful social entrepreneur, she founded, ran and sold oneNest, a New York-based social purpose business which operated a marketplace for products produced by microfinance, micro enterprises and artisan groups from all over the world. Recently, Durreen founded Impact Investment Exchange Asia, a social stock exchange which will allow Asian social enterprises to raise growth capital. Durreen began her career in the social sector at
Grameen Bank where she played a critical role in the bank's first major capital raising exercise. At the World Bank, she evaluated non- performing loan portfolios for the East Africa Department and at International Finance Corporation she assisted in selling Ashanti, the largest gold mine in the world for the Ghanaian government. In the private sector, Durreen worked as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley before moving to the media sector. As the head of three regional media companies (Asia City Publishing Group, Hearst Magazines International and Reader's Digest Asia), she worked vigorously to incorporate social responsibility in these companies' work. Durreen holds a BA from Smith College (double major in Economics and Government); and a joint graduate degree -- MBA from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (Finance) and MA from the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University (International Economics and International Relations).
VINITA A. SHETTY
Vinita A. Shetty is a Senior Editor at DNA, India's fastest growing English daily. She heads the Editorial Team and has a special interest in social reform, grass-roots education, advocacy issues and highlighting social injustices. Vinita has over 11 years of journalistic experience with leading newspapers like the Times of India and Asian Age - spanning investigative reporting, development issues, human rights violations and urban infrastructure issues. In 2007, she was appointed City Editor for the launch of Bangalore Mirror, the city's first compact daily, and headed the city reporting teams and news room operations. She has also researched, scripted and anchored TV projects covering varied topics. Vinita has lectured on women's rights, newsroom ethics, Indian media and youth issues. A member of I-volunteer, which provides assistance to terminally ill children, the elderly, and the physically challenged, she also volunteers as a media consultant to NGOs and is a member of the
Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI). Vinita lives in Bangalore with her husband and enjoys photography, horse-riding and mentoring young writers. Vinita graduated from Christ University in Journalism, Psychology and English.
SMITA SINGALKAR
Smita Singalkar is a practicing women’s rights activist and lawyer in the Nagpur District and High Court. She works for Human Rights and Law Defenders (HRLD) by directly intervening in the courts and providing legal aid to women prisoners and victims of domestic violence. Smita works to make the judiciary sensitive about the issues related to women and trying to empower the victims of violence to come ahead and fight for their rights. She completed her studies in medicine and later studied law.
DEEPIKA SINGH
Deepika Singh is the Founder and Director of Udaan, an organization that focuses on issues of access and quality of primary education. Udaan is currently a program of JANVIKAS, a 20-year-old organization. Deepika’s major areas of work are training of rural youth as educators; training of public school teachers on perspective building; content creation for primary school children to mainstream values of diversity, democracy and citizenship; and networking and liaising with government institutions and other organizations. She has designed and executed interventions for creating access to education, improving quality of education of public schools, use of community media for improving quality of education, education of Muslim children and educational interventions with children affected by communal violence.
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