Anastasia Kurniadi (Associate)
Anastasia is a Climate Associate in APC. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies from Yale-NUS College, with interests in environmental anthropology, sustainable development, and intersectionality. Her experiences include roles in research, communications, and partnership in community-based environmental work. She is a firm believer in the power of collective action and contributes to local and international climate initiatives. The ocean and music are two things close to her heart as she fills her free time SCUBA diving, playing the piano, and appreciating the local art scene. Resonating deeply with APC’s ethos of collaboration and community building, Anastasia is excited to start her social impact journey with APC and explore the enabling role philanthropy has in driving change and conversations in the climate space.
Christina Gan (Senior Manager, Finance)
Christina joined APC as Senior Finance Manager in July 2025. She is a Chartered Accountant with ISCA, and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy awarded by National University of Singapore. Christina has over 30 years of work experience mostly in small businesses, start-ups and non-profit organisations. During her career, she has helped organisations to digitalise, implement and streamline processes, as well as help make data and numbers easier to understand. She is excited to further her understanding of philanthropy and be part of team that makes a practical social impact for the region and beyond. Christina enjoys gardening, pop-culture, reading and travelling.
Eileen Chong (Lead, Insights & Innovation)
Eileen joined Asia Philanthropy Circle in June 2024. A former Singapore diplomat, Eileen is passionate about advocacy and change-making. Her foreign service career spanned a three-year posting in Beijing and headquarters stints covering Singapore’s bilateral relationships with China, Thailand, the Philippines, and Laos. She hopes to leverage her skills honed as a diplomat to amplify the voices of underserved/overlooked communities and causes across the region.
Eileen holds an M.A. in Global Affairs and Policy from Yonsei University and a B.A. in International Politics from Peking University. In her free time, she volunteers with organisations dedicated to improving the welfare of migrant workers in Singapore. She also enjoys trying out new cooking recipes and going on long walks with her dog, Henri.
Elizabeth Ee (Senior Director, Community and Engagement)
Elizabeth Ee joins APC as Senior Director, Community and Engagement, bringing over a decade of experience across philanthropy, advancement, ESG, and international engagement in Singapore and Australia, underpinned by nearly a decade in public relations and communications.
Her career spans leadership roles across universities and the private sector, where she has built and stewarded high-trust relationships with philanthropists, foundations, corporates, and institutional partners. Liz brings deep expertise in community building, strategic engagement, major gifts and partnerships, and cross-sector collaboration, with experience working at both enterprise and regional levels. She has also helped drive organisation-wide ethics and ESG engagement, shaping governance, values-led strategy, and stakeholder alignment.
With a strong interest in the impact sector, sustainability, and systems change, Liz has worked extensively on international engagement and funding partnerships across the Asia-Pacific region. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications) from the University of Melbourne and has lived both in Melbourne and Singapore, bringing a bi-cultural perspective to her work.
Outside of work, she enjoys time with her family exploring the Great Outdoors, experimenting in the kitchen, and is aspiring to train for a future couples HYROX.
Esther Chang (CEO)
Esther is driven by the belief that collaboration is essential to achieving system-level change. This conviction drew her to APC, where she brings together Asia-focused funders to learn, connect, and co-create solutions to the region’s most pressing challenges.
She has two decades of experience in philanthropy and sustainability. Before APC, she spent six years leading the UN Global Compact Network Singapore, driving enterprise capabilities and cross-sector partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals. Earlier, she held advancement roles in education and healthcare across Asia and North America.
Esther holds an EMBA from ESSEC & Mannheim Business Schools and a BSc in Life Sciences from Queen’s University, with further postgraduate studies in sustainability at the University of Cambridge.
Beyond work, she enjoys the outdoors—whether in the mountains or underwater—and mentoring those seeking to pivot their careers toward impact.
Héloïse Salvagnac (Intern)
Héloïse Salvagnac joins APC as an Intern. She holds a Master’s Degree in International Relations from Sciences Po Lyon (France), with an academic focus on global governance.
Heloise has experience working across NGOs, international organisations, and community-based initiatives, spanning policy research, organisational governance, and stakeholder engagement in both European and Asian contexts. She has contributed to initiatives within the United Nations, as well as in locally-led organisations—supporting programmes focused on inclusion, gender, education, and collective action. She is interested in human rights, community-led approaches, and developing inclusive and equitable responses to climate change.
In her free time, Heloise enjoys spending time outdoors, hiking, running, or swimming, and she is looking forward to discovering more of Singapore’s cultural and gastronomic scene.
Jasmine Khin (Senior Associate)
Jasmine Khin is a researcher and practitioner currently serving as Senior Associate at Asia Philanthropy Circle (APC). Born to Burmese parents and raised in Singapore, she brings a deeply personal perspective to the complexities that shape vulnerable communities across Southeast Asia.
At APC, Jasmine co-leads research and initiatives at the intersection of climate change and human rights—including ethical recruitment—and supports efforts that advance collaborative philanthropy across the region. She believes that philanthropy can contribute to transformative change particularly when it empowers the voices and centres lived experience of those most affected.
She writes and works from a place of commitment to justice, healing, and imagination, especially in contexts marked by crisis, resilience, and the quiet courage of everyday life. Jasmine began her career in academia, serving as a researcher and teaching assistant in philosophy, where she taught classes in ethics, classics, and political philosophy. Jasmine holds an MA in Philosophy from Northwestern University
and graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Philosophy and English Literature, from Kalamazoo College, USA.
Koon Peng Ooi (Senior Manager)
Koon Peng is a Senior Manager at Asia Philanthropy Circle. He joins us from Social Finance UK where he was advising donors, investors and social enterprises on structuring innovative financing models to improve social outcomes. Koon Peng has worked on the scoping and design of several Social Impact Bonds in a range of issue areas, including access to basic services, employment and modern slavery. He previously worked in the debt syndication team at Morgan Stanley UK and was an ODI Fellow at the Ministry of Finance in eSwatini.
Koon Peng is originally from Penang, Malaysia. He holds an MSc in Development Economics from Oxford University and a BA in Economics from the University of British Columbia.
Li Nan (Director, New Markets & Services)
Nan is thrilled to lead the Mandarin Collective, with the ambition of evolving the Chinese philanthropic ecosystem alongside our members and partners. Nan joins APC from Bridgewater Associates, where she advised global institutional clients and helped to launch the Singapore operations. She started her career at PwC’s New York office, where she advised financial services institutions on strategy, operations, and organizational challenges. Nan holds a BA in Economics and International Relations from Lafayette College. She enjoys hiking, traveling, and reading.
Rebecca Lim (Project Lead)
Rebecca is the Project Lead for APC’s Assisted Living Facility project. She started off with over a decade in international destination marketing and tourism development. After a significant season in Mumbai, she moved into the social impact space, applying her skills for social good. With over a decade in this sector where she pioneered a digital storytelling platform that advocated for social causes in the region, she grew as a leader who passionately shaped authentic culture for meaningful impact.
In this season of her life, she combines her hopeful disposition and eye for opportunities, with her love for people by journeying alongside others in human flourishing – one on one, in teams, communities and ecosystems. Alongside her current training as a clinical counsellor, she is concurrently working in roles that are at the intersections of senior care innovations, intergenerational community living and community-led movements, as she reimagines cradle-to-grave ecosystem builds.
Swati Agarwal (Director, Climate)
Swati is the Climate Director at APC, shaping strategies for philanthropies in complex settings and across interdisciplinary areas connected to climate change. Adept at building trust-based relationships across cultures, communities, and sectors, she is most drawn to shaping collaborative approaches to giving that deliver impact for the most vulnerable communities.
Prior to joining APC, Swati was the Programme Officer at Oak Foundation, a family philanthropic foundation based in Switzerland. For about 4 years, she led their climate giving in India and global programs at the intersection of climate, health, and livelihoods.
Swati is an economist by training. Earlier in her career with UNDP, she served as the lead analyst for the Ministry of Finance in India, driving meaningful engagements with the Asian Infrastructure Development bank (AIIB). She is a Nuffic Fellow on Climate Policy and Clean Energy and a foresight scholar with the University of Geneva. She serves as an Advisor on several philanthropic pooled funds.
Her journey across different institutions including philanthropies, government, industry, and civil society organisations has deepened her vision for delivering systems change through reimagining our relationship with nature, food, and energy. In her personal time, she enjoys reading with her son, deepening her practice for yoga, and playing the sitar.
Sophia Ng (Lead, Mandarin Collective)
Sophia leads APC’s Mandarin Collective, where she focuses on deepening regional collaborations, curating meaningful learning journeys and facilitate collaboration among philanthropists across Asia and the Chinese diaspora.
Sophia began her career in global travel retail, leading commercial and marketing portfolios across Asia. Her journey across corporate, startup, and social-impact spaces inspired a deeper commitment to purpose-driven work. She previously co-founded Kidztropic, an educational play initiative in Singapore that partners with preschools and community organisations to broaden access to early childhood development. Her work with families, educators, and social-impact partners shaped her belief that philanthropy should be empathetic, grounded, and community-led.
Joining APC represents a convergence of purpose for Sophia, allowing her to bridge cultures, convene diverse voices, and support meaningful collective action in the region. She is especially passionate about next-generation engagement and inclusive early-childhood support. In her personal time, she enjoys hiking, baking and reading biographies.
Theresa Cua (Senior Manager, Communications)
Theresa is a communications strategist passionate about shaping narratives that drive purpose and connect people across borders. She joined Asia Philanthropy Circle in 2021 as Manager for Communications and Programmes, bringing over a decade of experience in international, non-profit, and impact-driven spaces.
Before APC, she led communications for the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Secretariat under the Asia-Europe Foundation, and previously headed branding, communications, and marketing at charities and impact investing firms. At the Singapore International Foundation, she developed engagement strategies for its Cultural Exchange team in its formative years.
Theresa began her career at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (Manila), supporting work in local governance, political reform, and the Mindanao peace process.
She holds a BA in European Studies (cum laude), majoring in International Relations with a minor in French Studies from Ateneo de Manila University. She speaks (with varying levels of fluency) English, Filipino, Mandarin, Hokkien, German, and French—with a smattering of Japanese and Italian.
Zarina Bevi (Manager, Admin and Operations)
Zarina Bevi joins APC as a Manager for Administration and Operations, bringing with her experience in human resources and office management. In this role, she will support daily operations, coordinate administrative processes, and assist in HR functions to help ensure efficient workflows. Zarina plans to approach tasks with a practical and organized mindset, focusing on clarity, reliability, and effective execution.
At APC, she looks forward to contributing to the organisation’s mission and supporting initiatives that create a positive impact in the community. Zarina values building strong working relationships, establishing clear processes, and providing dependable support across teams.
Committed to continuous learning and professional growth, she is eager to explore ways to improve operational efficiency and enhance workplace practices. Zarina aims to foster a collaborative and supportive environment where colleagues feel empowered, motivated, and valued. She is excited to begin her journey at APC and contribute to a positive, people-focused culture.