The changing face of leadership crisis and opportunity
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SABRINA SINGH
Sabrina Singh is an astronaut trainer for NASA working with Japanese, Russian, European and US astronauts on spacesuits and living sustainably with limited resources in space. As the founder of NASA Everest Treks, she leads hiking expeditions to remote Himalayan mountains and also conducts medical care and education outreach in underserved areas. She is the founder and executive director of DUNK IT!, which uses sports culture to foster education on humanitarian crises. Sabrina is a graduate of a national leadership development program called NASA FIRST (Foundations of Influence, Relationships, Success, and Teamwork). She was also the recipient of a Rotary International Foundation scholarship for the Egypt Group Study Exchange. In this role, she motivated and mentored female engineering students. Sabrina also mentors graduating seniors at the American University of
SEAGULL HAIYAN SONG
Seagull Haiyan Song is currently a Senior Counsel at the Walt Disney Company based in Shanghai. Prior to joining Disney, Seagull was a partner at King and Wood, the largest law firm in China, and a consultant at Arnold & Porter LLP. Seagull has been acclaimed as the "Asialaw Leading lawyer" in the field of Intellectual Property in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. Seagull holds two LL.M degrees (Master of Law); one from the University of California Berkeley School of Law in 2007, and another from Hong Kong University in 2002.
P.V. SREENIJIN
P.V. Sreenijin is an advocate who is also a social activist, youth leader and community worker. Born into a middle class family with a strong value system, and a record of social and political initiative, Sreenijin plunged into politics right from his school days. He soon emerged as a youth leader within the ranks of the Indian National Congress, having created an identity as a visionary whose commitments to the most downtrodden in society won him tremendous goodwill and accolades. In pursuit of social justice for the most marginalized within the Indian community, he founded the Ambedkar Youth Wing inspired by the legendary dalit icon Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, and the father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi. He has been closely associated with KELSA-
Kerala State Legal Services Authority in organizing legal awareness camps across the state. As an advocate practicing in the High Courts of Delhi and Kerala his area of focus includes constitutional law and human rights. He has also specialized in public interest litigation and has been instrumental in setting up public advocacy groups which focus on dalits and youth empowerment. In light of his achievements, the Congress party offered him an opportunity to contest elections to the Legislative Assembly. As one of the youngest candidates, he put up a brave fight but lost the election by a margin of around 2000 votes. Thereafter, he has been active in the task force of the Congress Party having travelled across rural India in a massive grassroots level campaign spearheaded by India's youth leader Rahul Gandhi. He has also recently launched a blogspot called Talk with Sreenijin, which he intends to develop as a potent tool targeting the youth in his campaigns for grassroots empowerment. He completed his BA and LLB from Mahatma Gandhi University. He received his LLM from the University of Northampton.
RYAN STOKES
Ryan Stokes is a director of Australian Capital Equity (ACE), a private investment company with significant interests in media and industrial equipment services across Australia and China. ACE is the largest shareholder in the Seven Network Limited, a publicly-listed media company with interests in broadcast television, magazine publishing, and online assets through a JV with KKR, the exclusive metropolitan WiMAX spectrum, the West Australian Newspapers, and substantial cash assets. ACE, through WesTrac, is the Caterpillar dealer for WA, NSW, and the ACT for Australia and North East China. Previous to ACE, Ryan worked with Merrill Lynch in New York before returning to Australia in 2000.
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DORJEE SUN
Dorjee Sun is founder and CEO of Carbon Conservation, which he started to finance the preservation of tropical rainforests and provide carbon credit revenues to local communities via avoiding deforestation. He has broken new ground by engineering a moratorium on deforestation in three Indonesian provinces and bringing Green Governors from Amazon and Indonesia together. Carbon Conservation's Aceh Forest was the world's first avoided deforestation pilot project to receive the independent validation under the Climate Community Biodiversity Standards. By avoiding 100M tons of CO2 from being emitted, it is one of the biggest carbon projects ever undertaken in history and was subsequently the first standing rainforest to receive major investment from a Wall Street Bank when Merrill Lynch committed $9M USD up to $430M USD to its protection. These deals are the
National Geographic and CBC. Dorjee, has also executed renewable energy and carbon projects in Asia and Australia and is now based in Singapore. Last year, he won the African Rainforest Conservancy Earth Day Award which saw a new Chameleon species from Tanzania, Kinyongia Dorjeesuni named after him. He was also recently selected as one of TIME Magazine's Heroes of the Environment 2009. He graduated from UNSW with Law and Commerce degrees, a Diploma in Asian Studies majoring in Mandarin after studying for two years on scholarship at Peking University in China.
ANAND SUNDERRAMAN
Anand Sunderraman co-founded Navayana with Ravikumar, an activist-writer of the dalit movement in India. Anand was a journalist for a decade with The Hindu, Outlook, and Tehelka. Navayana is inspired by the radical ideals of B.R. Ambedkar, one of the founders of modern India. In 2007, Anand won the British Council-London Book Fair's International Young Publisher of the Year award. The judges said he was "a champion for greater engagement with India's marginalized and underprivileged. He has a clear social agenda but, importantly, also a real understanding of the economics of publishing, and a clear, long term vision." In 2008, his work as a social
dalits/adivasis as editors at Jadavpur University. Anand believes publishing can be a vehicle for social change. He is one of the founder- members of the Independent Publishers Distribution Alternatives. The 2009 documentary film, Bhagwan Das: In Pursuit of Ambedkar, scripted and directed by Anand, has been selected for screening at Film South Asia, September 2009, in Kathmandu. Anand received his M.A. and M.Phil in literature from Central University, Hyderabad.
JACQUELINE ANN SURIN
Jacqueline Ann Surin is the Co-Founder and Editor of The Nut Graph and is the co-founder of MalaysiaVotes.com. A journalist since 1994 with The Star, then The Edge and The Sun in Malaysia, she is also the author of Shape of a Pocket. In 2007, she received the Excellence in Opinion Writing Award from the Society of Publishers in Asia for her Shape of a Pocket column which she continues to keep at The Nut Graph. She was also named by London-based Article 19 as the Pioneering Women's Voices Candidate for Malaysia in commemoration of International Women's Day in 2007. She received an MA in Media Studies at Sussex University in England as a Chevening scholar, and studied journalism in the United States under the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship.
HENDRA SUTANDINATA
Hendra Sutandinata is the Founder & CEO of MVCommerce, an organization founded to help increase the global competitiveness of rural and micro enterprises by improving their access to modern financial services. Hendra started his career with the PC industry pioneer Tandon Corporation in California. In 1992, he left his position as head of the Product Marketing Group for North America & Asia to become became the President of Zeuscom: Indonesia's first PC manufacturer to design and build computers for global brands. Hendra founded MVCommerce in 2002 to address the gap between the financial service industry and the rural & micro economies of developing countries. The company has since been enabling Indonesian banks to extend their service reach beyond branches and ATMs, as well as lowering the costs of servicing account holders. Recently, MVCommerce announced the PonselPay service that enables micro and rural enterprises and individuals to use mobile phones to receive loans, wages and grants, pay installments, bills and tickets; withdraw cash without an
ATM card, and conduct online payment transactions with millions of bank account holders and registered mobile subscribers of the same and other telcos without having to open a bank account. Hendra received his Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from Loyola Marymount University of Los Angeles, and an MBA from the University of Southern California.
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RUSDY SYARIEF
Rusdy Syarief is currently Special Staff to the Vice Chairman of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) of Indonesia where he leads a team that analyses political issues. He started to serve as Expert Staff with the People's Representative Council (DPR) just this November. In his social work, Rusdy serves as Executive Director with the Metaforma Institute: Center for Community and Social Development. From March 2002 to October 2005, he was a Researcher with the Institute for the Study and Advancement of Business Ethics. He wrote a book with the title The
to May 2006, he served as Lecturer with the Universitas Paramadina for the subject of Political Science with the International Relations Department. He received a BA in Political Science from the University of Northern Iowa on
a tennis scholarship. He received a Masters degree in Southeast Asian Studies from the Northern Territory University, Australia
DAN FENG TAN
Tan Dan Feng is founder and CEO of software developer GistXL, a National Infocomm Awards winner engaged in natural language processing and artificial intelligence research. He also heads Interlexis, a regional language translation group serving major government and corporate customers. Since 2004, he has been executive director of Select Books, an established Southeast Asian book retailer, distributor and publisher with close links to civil society and NGOs. He has edited several books on Southeast Asian society, politics and culture. His interest is in developing new models to deal with the burgeoning demand for cross-language communication.
Hsu-Ming Teo is a lecturer in the Department of Modern History at the University of Macquarie, and a novelist and historian. In 1999, she won The Australian Vogel Literary Award for her first novel Love and Vertigo, which was also short-listed for the inaugural Tasmania Pacific Region Literary Prize and the Dobbie Award for women's fiction. It has been translated into German, Italian, Chinese and Thai. Her second novel, Behind the Moon, was published in 2005 and was shortlisted for one of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards in 2006. Both novels are studied in universities around the world. She is working on her third novel. From 2003 to 2005, Hsu- Ming was a committee member of International PEN, Sydney Centre. She worked on the New South Wales Premier's History and Literature Committee in 2004, and was a judge of the New South Wales Premier's
Department of Modern History, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Hsu-ming is the editor of Cultural History in Australia, as well as the author of a range of academic articles and book chapters on the history of travel and tourism, Orientalism, and popular fiction. She is an editorial board member of the Journal of Australian Studies. She is currently completing a book on Loving the Orient: Orientalism
NAVIN THUKKARAM
Navin Thukkaram is a private investor. Previously, he was a Director at Vulcan Capital, the investment firm of Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder. Navin focuses on energy investments and served as a Director of Vulcan Energy Corporation (ParentCo of Plains All American ($9B public company; NYSE: PAA) and Vulcan Resources Florida. Prior to Vulcan, Navin worked in New York for JLL Partners, a private equity firm, and previously, Lazard and Deutsche Bank. Navin is a fellow of the US-Japan Leadership Program, co-head of the American India Foundation Seattle chapter, and benefactor of the Navin Thukkaram Fellowship Fund at Harvard Business School. Navin holds a BSE, cum laude, from Princeton University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is an avid golfer
and currently resides in Seattle, Washington.
CHUNG TO
Chung To is founder and chairperson of Chi Heng Foundation, a charitable organization founded in 1998 in Hong Kong, China (www.chihengfoundation.com). Utilizing innovative and pragmatic approaches, Chi Heng has excelled in education and care for children orphaned by AIDS, and in HIV prevention among vulnerable groups. Since 2002, Chung worked tirelessly in Central China for children orphaned by AIDS, whose parents contracted the virus via unsanitary blood trade in the 1990s. Despite political sensitivity and other difficulties, Chung developed a systematic and sustainable program which currently sponsors the education and
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psychosocial care for 8,000 children whose parents have died of or are dying of AIDS in seven provinces in China. Viewed by many as a best practice model of its kind, the program has become the largest non-governmental effort focusing on helping children impacted by AIDS in China (www.chfaidsorphans.com). He received a Bachelors degree fromt Columbia University and a Masters degree from Harvard University. Before he began to work full time for Chi Heng on a pro bono basis, Chung worked in investment banking in New York and Hong Kong for 10 years. Chung has received numerous awards, including the Ramon Magsaysay Award (2007) , Hong Kong's First
Asia 21 Public Service Award from the Asia Society and Merrill Lynch.
LHAWANG UGYEL
Lhawang Ugyel is a researcher and policy analyst for His Majesty’s Secretariat, in the court of the King of Bhutan. Previously, he worked in the Royal Civil Service Commission for seven years and played a key role in initiating various systemic and organizational reforms throughout the Bhutanese bureaucratic system. Lhawang completed a Masters degree in International Development Studies from Cornell University, and plans to enroll in the PhD program in Public Policy at the Australian National University in January 2010 through the Australian Leadership Awards.
SANDIAGA SALAHUDDIN UNO
Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno is the Founding Partner of Saratoga Capital, a private equity/direct investment firm he co-founded with Edwin Soeryadjaya in 1998. Saratoga Capital focuses its investments in natural resources and infrastructure opportunities in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. He currently holds directorships at PT Adaro Energy Tbk,, PT Mitra Global Telekomunikasi Indonesia and Interra Resources Limited. He also co-founded a boutique investment firm, PT Recapital Advisors in 1997. Sandiaga graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Wichita State University in 1990 and obtained a Master of Business Administration from George Washington University in 1992. He was the immediate past Chairman of Indonesian Young Entrepreneurs Association (HIPMI), serving from 2005-2008. Since March 2009, he also holds the position of Vice President for Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises and Cooperatives of the
is basketball and he was the Team Manager for the Indonesian Women National Basketball Team for the 2005 Southeast Asia Games in Manila.
KA HSAW WA
Ka Hsaw Wa is a Co-Founder and the Executive Director of EarthRights International (ERI), a non-profit organization that uses the power of law and the power of people in defense of human rights and the environment. A member of the Karen ethnic nationality of Burma, he was one of the student leaders in the 1988 nationwide student uprising for democracy and freedom, and has been a human rights activist since he fled Burma in 1988. During the mid-1990s, ERI led a precedent-setting lawsuit against a US corporation for complicity in human rights abuses committed in Burma. Since the historic settlement in 2005, he has been instrumental in the creation of new strategies for corporate and government accountability and continues to
provide innovative training programs aimed at building the capacity of indigenous peoples to protect their rights, restore control over natural resources and conserve the environment. He has been awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize, Reebok Human Rights Award, Whitley Fund for Nature/Sting and Trudie Styler Award for Human Rights and the Environment, the Conde Nast Environmental Award, and the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership for his work in defense of human rights and the environment.
ALEXANDRA WAGNER
Alexandra Wagner is the Executive Director of Not On Our Watch. Founded by actors George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Don Cheadle, and Matt Damon, Not On Our Watch is a non-profit advocacy and grant making organization that uses leading cultural voices to draw attention to and combat mass atrocities. Alexandra is responsible for developing and implementing the organization's global advocacy strategy and directing its grants to provide humanitarian assistance and protection in regions of crisis (currently Darfur, Zimbabwe and Burma/Myanmar). Before Not on Our Watch, Wagner served as Editor in Chief of The FADER magazine, reporting on national and global cultural trends. Prior to this, she served as the Cultural Correspondent for the Center for American Progress, a Washington, DC-based think tank.
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TING HWAY WONG
Ting Hway Wong is a doctor at the Department of General Surgery at Singapore General Hospital. Previously, she was a volunteer with Doctors without Borders and helps coordinate the Doctors without Borders Peer Support Network in Singapore. She was the first Singaporean to work as a medical delegate with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Back home in Singapore, she has served as volunteer committee chairman and council member of HCA Hospice Care, the largest homecare hospice organization in Singapore. Conversant in several languages, including English, Chinese, Spanish, French and Portuguese, she also speaks basic Malay, Arabic and Nepali. Nine years after receiving her medical degree from Cambridge University, she decided to pursue a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University, with an interest in injury epidemiology and health policy. When
not walking around the hospital, she tries to find time to belly-dance and write poetry.
THOM WOODROOFE
Thom Woodroofe is the founder of Left Right Think Tank, Australia's first independent and non-partisan think tank of young minds, and was named the 2009 Young Victorian of the Year. In addition to Left Right, Thom is also a youth expert consultant to Flamingo International based in Tokyo, and sits on the advisory board to Peace Child International based in London which holds consultative status with the United Nations. Thom has been recognized as a Global Changemaker by the British Council and has received a United States Congressional Certificate of Special Recognition. In the future, Thom plans to continue his focus on
idea, vision and idealism. Thom is completing a Bachelor of Arts (Global) at Monash University where he is currently studying on exchange at the University of California in the United States.
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