Laurence Lien is Co-Founder and founding CEO of the Asia Philanthropy Circle. Laurence is also the Chairman of Lien Foundation, a family foundation established in 1980, that has become well-regarded for its forward-thinking and radical approach in the fields of education, eldercare and the environment, as well as the Chairman of Lien AID, the foundation’s humanitarian arm. Laurence was the CEO of the National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre in Singapore from 2008-2014. In 2008, he founded the Community Foundation of Singapore and was its Chairman from 2013-2019. He is also Board Member of the Lien Centre for Social Innovation at…

Cherie Nursalim is Executive director of GITI Group. Cherie also serves on the International and China Advisory Boards for Columbia University and MIT Sloan School of Management respectively. A Co-Chairman of the United Nations Global Initiative SDSN-ASEAN, she also serves on the Yale Center for Environmental Law Policy, and the University of Indonesia Climate Change Center boards. She is founding trustee of China Disabled Persons Foundation Board, China’s largest foundation, and is among the founding members of the Global Philanthropic Circle. Her philanthropic work is devoted to health, environment, social justice organisations and tri-sector collaboration. She founded her own organisation,…

Stanley Tan is a businessman but has since the age of 35 placed an equal emphasis on volunteering, devoted almost half his time to community causes both in and outside Singapore. Stanley is CEO of Global Yellow Pages Singapore, Director and Founder of the investment company, Global Media Holdings, which has a strategic stake in Global Yellow Pages Limited, and a director of the Angliss Property Group, which deals in property investment in Australia. He has spent his business years in media and publishing, property development and investments, and hotels and hotel management. Stanley is passionate about addressing the needs…