Philanthropy Asia Summit 2026

Bambang Brodjonegoro, an Indonesian national, is the Dean and CEO of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI). Before joining ADBI in April 2025 he was Special Advisor to the President of the Republic of Indonesia for Economic Affairs and National Development. He served the Government of Indonesia in several senior leadership roles from 2011. He was Indonesia’s Minister of Finance (2014–2016), Minister of National Development Planning (2016–2019), and Minister of Research and Technology (2019-2021). Besides government and academic, he also served as Director General of Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI), Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) (2009-2010).

Dean Brodjonegoro holds a doctorate and master's degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a bachelor's degree in economics from the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Indonesia, where he was full Professor and serving as Dean during 2005-2009.

Carol Liew is the Founding Managing Director of ECCA Family Foundation, bringing over 15 years of experience across impact-driven philanthropy and international development. She leads ECCA’s grantmaking and impact investments, supporting locally led solutions in ocean sustainability, biodiversity, and underserved communities. Under her leadership, ECCA works in close partnership with NGOs, community leaders, government, and academia to drive collective action and strengthen systems-level change. The foundation takes a relational, high-touch approach—backing early-stage and grassroots actors while helping to connect them with broader networks and resources. Previously, Carol was Head of Philanthropy at North-East Family Office, where she shaped strategic giving for families and helped establish ECCA. Her earlier work in humanitarian and development contexts spanned eight countries across Asia, managing multi-million-dollar programs in climate adaptation, sustainable livelihoods, and community resilience. She is committed to shifting power in philanthropy and mobilizing resources in ways that are flexible, inclusive, and grounded in the realities of those closest to the work. 

Dilhan has held various leadership roles in Temasek, including Head of the Investment, the Portfolio Management and the Enterprise Development Groups. He has also led the Temasek market teams in Singapore and the Americas.

Prior to Temasek, Dilhan was the Managing Partner of WongPartnership LLP. He has over 20 years of legal experience, mainly focusing on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and corporate law.

Elizabeth Yee is Executive Vice President of Programs at The Rockefeller Foundation, overseeing global programs, regional offices, partnerships and learning and impact. She joined in 2019 as Managing Director of Climate and Resilience and later served as Chief of Staff. She previously held leadership roles at 100 Resilient Cities and spent 17 years in infrastructure finance at Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers and Barclays, closing over $30 billion in transactions. Liz serves on the boards of Sustainable Energy for All and Punahou School, the advisory board of Co-Impact, and is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She holds a degree from the University of Pennsylvania. 

One of Asia’s most respected higher education, health and philanthropic leaders, Gabriel Leung is known for his commitment to improving human capabilities, nurturing impactful innovation and building strong institutions. He is Executive Director (Charities and Community) of the Hong Kong Jockey Club overseeing its Charities Trust, while serving as a Governor of Welcome Trust. Gabriel’s career has straddled academe, public service and philanthropy. From 2013 to 2022, he was the longest-serving Dean of Medicine and inaugural Helen and Francis Zimmern Professor in Population Health at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). Formerly, he was Hong Kong's Under Secretary for Food and Health then Director of the Chief Executive's Office in government. His research defined the epidemiology of three novel viral epidemics, namely SARS in 2003, H7N9 influenza in 2013 and most recently COVID-19. As minister, he led Hong Kong government's response against the 2009 influenza pandemic. He was founding co-director of HKU's World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control and established the Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health (D24H) at the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park. Around the world, Gabriel regularly advises national and international agencies including the World Health Organisation, World Health Summit, Prince Mahidol Award Conference, Pasteur Network, Communicable Diseases Agency of Singapore and Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. He is an elected member of the US National Academy of Medicine and holds honorary professorships at Tsinghua, Peking Union Medical College Hospital and HKU. 

Laurel Blatchford is a director and senior partner at Delivery Associates, a global social impact consultancy that specializes in supporting governments and nonprofits to translate complex strategies into real-world delivery, with a particular focus on building the capacity of public systems to drive lasting, equitable impact. Laurel’s 25-year career has included leadership roles in the public, nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. Between 2023-2025 Laurel served as the Chief Implementation Officer for the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) at the US Department of the Treasury. Before her most recent government service, Laurel was a managing director at Blue Meridian Partners, a major philanthropic pooled fund focused on economic mobility. Laurel also served as President of Enterprise Community Partners, one of US's largest affordable housing and community development intermediaries, where she oversaw activities in 12 markets across the US. From 2009-2013, Laurel served as Chief of Staff to Secretary Shaun Donovan at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. Prior to joining the Obama Administration, she held senior roles in the administration of New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg. Laurel currently serves on the boards of the American Flood Coalition and Fountain House and is a Senior Advisor to Renaissance Philanthropy. She holds an MPP from Harvard Kennedy School and a BA from Williams College. 

Marina is Associate Professor at University College London, and the Executive Director of the Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change. The Lancet Countdown is an independent and multi-disciplinary research collaboration between over 100 academic centres and UN organisations from around the world, in strategic partnership with WHO, and headquartered at University College London’s Institute for Global Health.

She is also a member of the UK's Climate Change Adaptation Committee, and is one of the seven global experts selected to refine the Global Goal on Adaptation indicators for health under the Paris Agreement. In 2025 she was appointed honorary member of the UK Faculty of Public Health.

Marina trained as a clinical biochemist in the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and holds a PhD in biomedical sciences from the University of Cambridge. Her research background spans from toxicology through to environmental health and climate change, and before joining the Lancet Countdown she carried out her research in the Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires, the University of Cambridge, and the Francis Crick Institute in London, UK.

Munib is the Chief Executive Officer of FAST-P Asia Pte Ltd, overseeing the strategic direction and execution of Financing Asia’s Transition Partnership (FAST-P), a blended finance initiative launched by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. FAST-P brings together international public, private and philanthropic partners to support Asia’s decarbonisation and climate resilience. 

Munib has 30 years of Investment Management experience. Prior to leading FAST-P, he founded Singapore’s first B Corp-certified fund management firm, and had spent 14 years at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, where he served as CIO of Asia Equity and co-Portfolio Manager for a global mandate with US$14 billion under his watch.  

Munib is a CFA Charterholder with a Master of Science in Environmental Management from the National University of Singapore. He also holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance (First Class Honours) from the University of Technology, Sydney. 

Naina Subberwal Batra is the CEO of AVPN, Asia’s largest network of social investors that aims to increase the flow of financial, human and intellectual capital for impact. 

Naina’s leadership since 2013 has nurtured the AVPN community, growing the membership base by more than four times and elevating the organisation into a truly regional force for good. Under her direction, AVPN has grown from focusing only on venture philanthropy to supporting the entire ecosystem of social investors, from catalytic philanthropists to impact investors and corporate CSR professionals. 

Naina is currently a Board Director for the Blue Earth Foundation, as well as a Board Member of the Menzies Foundation and Blue Planet Environmental Solution Pte Ltd. 

Naina was featured on the list of Asia's Most Influential by Tatler Asia in 2025 and 2021, and was a fellow at The Bellagio Center Residency Program in 2022. She was awarded by CSRWorks as one of Asia's Top Sustainability Superwomen in 2019. 

Noni holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Industrial) from the University of Newcastle, Australia, an MBA from the University of San Francisco, completed an Executive Program at Harvard Business School, and an honorary Doctorate from the University of Newcastle. In recognition of her contributions, she also received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters and was appointed as an Honorary Council by the University of San Francisco. 

Noni Purnomo currently serves as the President Commissioner of Bluebird Group Holding and Deputy President Commissioner of PT Blue Bird Tbk. During her tenure as President Director of Bluebird Group Holding and President Director of PT Blue Bird Tbk, she has led the company through transformation focused on service excellence and long-term sustainability. She has been a driving force behind Bluebird’s socially responsible initiatives, including Make Jakarta’s Sky Blue, One Ride One Seed, Bluebird Peduli, and Kartini Bluebird. Beasiswa Bluebird Peduli was founded as a commitment to supporting the academically outstanding children of Bluebird drivers and employees, ensuring they have the opportunity to succeed and thrive. These efforts have provided over 66,000 scholarships since 1998. 

Throughout her career, Noni has played a key role in guiding Bluebird through critical periods, including the unprecedented challenges of the pandemic. She is also the founder of Amsaka Investama, a private investment firm. 

Beyond her corporate responsibilities, Noni is deeply committed to education, health, and women’s empowerment. Her philanthropic work continues to positively impact communities across Indonesia. She also serves on the Board of Trustees at the University of Indonesia, is a member of the Temasek Southeast Asia Advisory Panel and a member of the Honorary Council of WiLAT (Women in Logistics and Transport). 

Her commitment to sustainability and empowerment is further reflected in her involvement with The Nature Conservancy’s Asia Pacific Council and Clean Air Asia, working to advance environmental and conservation goals—cementing her legacy as a driving force for positive change in Indonesia and beyond. 

Noni’s trailblazing leadership has earned her national and international recognition. She was featured on Forbes' prestigious 50 Over 50 Asia 2023, named one of the 20 Most Powerful Women in 2023 by Fortune Indonesia, and recognised among the Women on Wheels 2025 by Media Oto. She is also a recipient of the Women Entrepreneur of the Year at the ACES Awards 2022 and the Iconomics Best CEO – Employees' Choice Award in 2020. 

Ramanan Laxminarayan is founder and president of the One Health Trust in Washington, D.C. and Bangalore, a senior research scholar at Princeton University, and director of the WHO Collaborating Center on Antimicrobial Resistance in New Delhi. He is an affiliate professor at the University of Washington, senior associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland and the National University of Singapore Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health. He is founder at HealthCubed, which works to improve access to healthcare and diagnostics worldwide.  

Since 1995, Laxminarayan has worked to improve the understanding of antibiotic resistance as a problem of managing a shared global resource.  His work encompasses extensive peer-reviewed research, public outreach, and direct engagement across Asia and Africa through the Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership. Through his prolific research, active public outreach (including a TED talk that has been viewed over a million times) and sustained policy engagement, he has played a central role in bringing the issue of drug resistance to the attention of leaders and policymakers worldwide and to the United Nations General Assembly in 2016 and 2024. 

During the Obama Administration, Laxminarayan served on the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology’s antimicrobial resistance working group and in 2015 was appointed a voting member of the U.S. Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antimicrobial Resistance where he served until 2023.  From 2018 to 2024, Laxminarayan was the first board chair of GARD-P, a global product development partnership created by the World Health Organization, that aims to develop and deliver new treatments for bacterial infections. He is a series editor of the Disease Control Priorities for Developing Countries, 3rd edition. 

In 2003-04, he served on the National Academy of Science/Institute of Medicine Committee on the Economics of Antimalarial Drugs and subsequently helped create the Affordable Medicines Facility for malaria, a $450 million novel financing mechanism for antimalarials that reduced the cost of antimalarials worldwide.  In 2012, Laxminarayan created the Immunization Technical Support Unit that supports the immunization program of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Government of India and which is credited with helping introduce four new vaccines and extending vaccination coverage to 3 million infants.  As Vice President, Research and Policy at the Public Health Foundation of India between 2011 and 2015, he led the growth of a research division to over 700 technical and research staff.  

Laxminarayan led the largest Covid-19 epidemiology study in the world based on extensive contact tracing in India. The flagship paper from this study was published in Science in 2020.    

Laxminarayan is a fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science and the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  He was named a distinguished alumnus by the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani in 2019, and by the University of Washington Department of Economics in 2020.  He is a winner of the Ella Pringle medal by the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh (Pringle was the first ever woman elected to the RCPE), the BP Koirala medal in honor of Nepal’s first democratically elected Prime Minister and 2024 Garrod Medal by the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.  

Laxminarayan’s work has been featured on ABC’s 60 minutes and on PBS Frontline as well as various documentary films, and has been widely covered in major media outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, BBC, Financial Times, CNN, the Economist, LA Times, NBC, NPR, Reuters, Science, Wall Street Journal, and the National Journal.  His research includes over 400 books, book chapters, and peer reviewed papers in leading journals in science, medicine and economics.  

Mr. Siddharth Sharma is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Tata Trusts, one of Asia’s oldest and largest philanthropies, which are committed to making a positive and irreversible impact on millions of lives through their interventions in areas such as health, education, nutrition, livelihood, sustainability, urban habitat, sanitation and hygiene. Apart from providing administrative leadership to the Trusts, he also sits on the Boards of various not-for-profit organizations and Section 8 Companies.

Prior to his appointment as the CEO of Tata Trusts, Mr. Sharma was the Group Chief Sustainability Officer at Tata Sons, where he spearheaded the Tata Group’s sustainability agenda, including crafting the Group’s ambitious ‘Net Zero by 2045’ agenda. He was, in that capacity, also the Chair of the Tata Group Sustainability Council, the apex sustainability body of the Tata Group.

Finance Association (HKGFA).

At AIIB, Tracy leads the development of innovative private capital mobilisation platforms that channel institutional investment into sustainable infrastructure at scale. At HKGFA, she drives policy advocacy and market development to position Hong Kong as a leading green finance hub.

Tracy previously served as Managing Director and Head of Asia Sustainable Finance at Standard Chartered, and earlier held fixed income and structured products roles at JPMorgan, Mizuho International, Barclays Capital, and BNP Paribas in London and Hong Kong.

Beyond her anchor roles, Tracy is Board Director of both the Hong Kong Green Building Council (HKGBC) and Sprinkle Charity Foundation. She also sits on the Policy Research Committee of the Hong Kong Financial Services Development Council (FSDC) and is Senior Advisor to the HK2050isNow Green Building Project.

She has contributed to the Securities & Futures Commission Climate Change Technical Expert Group, and previously held board positions with AIDS Concern and the Hong Kong LGBT+ Interbank Network, where she founded JPM PRIDE HK.

She holds BA and MSc degrees in International Finance and Capital Markets from the UK, completed the Social Finance Executive Programme at Oxford Saïd Business School, and is certified by the Hong Kong Institution of Bankers in Green and Sustainable Finance.

Woochong Um is the Chief Executive Officer of the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP), a multi-sector coalition established in 2021 to address one of the most pressing challenges of our era: eradicating energy poverty and combating the climate crisis through an equitable transition to renewable energy. As CEO, Woochong is committed to advancing GEAPP's mission to unlock sustainable, green energy solutions across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean—fostering economic progress, resilience, and inclusive prosperity for all. His leadership brings new momentum to accelerating the clean energy transition in emerging and developing economies, providing millions of people and businesses with better and safer access to power.

Before GEAPP, Woochong's extensive career in international development, spanning over three decades, includes a distinguished tenure at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as Managing Director General. In this role, he led transformative global partnerships and innovative funding mechanisms designed to foster economic growth, sustainability, and community resilience across diverse sectors, including health, education, agriculture, and humanitarian aid. Woochong championed ADB’s environmental and renewable energy agenda, embedding climate action plans at the heart of the bank’s development initiatives.

Prior to his role as Managing Director General, Woochong served as Director General for ADB’s Regional and Sustainable Development Department, where he oversaw the bank’s climate finance initiatives, emphasizing private sector engagement and carbon market financing. His portfolio encompassed sustainable infrastructure, social development, governance, environmental safeguards, and public management.

Earlier in his tenure at ADB, he served as Secretary, overseeing relationships between shareholders and management. He also played a pivotal role in the Mekong Department, leading major infrastructure projects, including the groundbreaking Nam Theun 2 Hydroelectric Project in the Lao People's Democratic Republic, developed in collaboration with the World Bank.

Before joining ADB, Woochong gained valuable private-sector experience as a Corporate Information Systems Specialist at Pfizer Inc. in New York and as Lead Programming Analyst at Pitney Bowes Inc. in Stamford, Connecticut.

A Korean national, Woochong holds an MBA in finance and international business from New York University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Management from Boston College.

Dr. Yvonne Pinto is the Director General of the International Rice Research Institute and provides direction and management to meet the expectations of the Board, donors, investors, partners, stakeholders including farmers in rice-based systems across Asia and Africa. She led IRRI’s recent 2025-2030 strategy and guides innovation and scaled translation of IRRI’s sustainable efforts to solve some of the biggest global issues of climate change, nutrition, and environmental resilience. She champions breakthrough innovations in digital, and data across the CGIAR system and is the CGIAR Asia Pacific regional representative. With 30 years of experience Dr Pinto has held roles as Managing Director and Director of Strategy, Innovation, and Sustainability in the private sector. Prior to that, she spent 15 years in global philanthropic foundations where she managed intermediaries and set up institutions in the agriculture, finance and enterprise sectors. She has in this capacity supported Breeding Programs, Seed and Soil Health Systems Programs, Integrated Pest Management, Genetic conservation and Biodiversity, and women’s leadership and economic empowerment. She also established an impact investing fund and 2 NGOs in Kenya and Uganda and managed a relationship between a Foundation and its largest intermediary. Her early career was in Agriculture, and postdoctoral research in Plant Biotechnology and Molecular Virology. As the leader of a professional services firm measuring the impact of innovation in agriculture, she has worked with more than 250+ clients including donors, governments, private, research and non-government agencies in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. With combined scientific and economic experience and extensive networks, she has provided unique perspectives and advantages to these clients. Her experience includes Agriculture Sector Transformation, Innovation Ecosystem Management, Commercialization of Innovations, ML&E, ESG, Capacity Building, International Development, and Policy Formulation and Evaluation. She has analyzed digital innovations in Africa and Asia (26 countries) and assessed policies and frameworks for digital innovation and data security. She has advised within the start-up ecosystem, served on investment committees and been an assessor of health, life science and AgriTech enterprises and their growth.  

Dr Pinto is a strong advocate of good governance with successful board roles for over 25 years including Chair, Committee Chair, Board member and Secretary. Dr. Pinto has a BSc in Plant Sciences and Agriculture from Reading University, MSc in Plant Biotechnology and PhD in Molecular Virology from Imperial College and General Management Executive Education from the Judge Business School at Cambridge University. She speaks widely on science and its relevance to health and agriculture.