Speaker Categories: Future of Education

Johanna Zuleta

Founder, La Zuleta

Johanna Zuleta is the founder of La Zuleta , a consultancy cultivating high-level leadership alliances and offering strategic advisory across a diverse spectrum – dedicated to develop meaningful relationships between business, diplomacy, philanthropy and cultural sectors. Through consciously curated gatherings at places such as Davos, G20 Summits, COP Summits, European Parliament, Art Fairs and Biennales, working with governments, patrons, museums, institutions, indigenous leaders, grassroots movements and communities across geographies, generations and life paths. Johanna’s approach is dedicated to ongoing engagements and actions with purpose, for a local and global impact, with love.

Qiyun Woo

Founder, The Weird and Wild, 2024 Global Citizen Youth Leader

Qiyun Woo is an environmental communicator and the creator of The Weird and Wild, a visual medium that makes climate science accessible through comics and visual elements. She uses comics, videos, and social media to make scientific concepts, policies, and information accessible to a digital audience. The work of Woo has gained traction, and she has been featured in major news outlets such as Grazia, WWD, Vogue, and L’Officiel, as well as local media outlets such as The Straits Times and Channel News Asia. She has also been named a National Geographic Young Explorer by National Geographic. As a Singaporean climate activist who uses creative storytelling with a passion for making climate science understandable, Woo is passionate about science communication and loves telling stories about complex issues.

Peter Waring

Pro Vice Chancellor of Transnational Education, Murdoch University

Professor Peter Waring is Pro Vice Chancellor of Transnational Education at Murdoch University and is responsible for advancing the University’s interests in Singapore and Dubai. He holds qualifications in Economics, Law and Management and has published more than 100 scholarly works. Additionally, he serves on the National Education Advisory Committee of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He has lived in Singapore for the last 23 years. 

Mei Wan

Co-Founder of TMRW

Mei Wan is co-founder of TMRW, a climate non-profit organization based in Shanghai, China. TMRW curates meaningful dialogues at the intersection of culture, business, policy and innovation, aiming to accelerate sustainable development. At the moment, TMRW has a journalistic arm that publishes in-depth climate reporting, and a project arm that drives sustainable forums and programs. Before founding TMRW, Mei was a climate business consultant at IFC, a sister organization of the World Bank. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and scientific journalism from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Université Paris Cité.

Risto Väyrynen

Founder, The Impact Office

Risto Väyrynen is the founder of The Impact Office, where he brings together families to leverage their “unfair advantage” for scalable, meaningful impact. As chairman and fourth-generation member of his family’s Finnish bakery business, Risto combines his background in family enterprise with experience as a former Managing Partner at a Geneva-based investment firm. For over a decade, he’s been using what he’s learned from both worlds to support impact investing and back projects that help keep us within planetary boundaries. Risto holds an MBA in Family Business from EDHEC Business School. 

He previously led the Family Business Community at the World Economic Forum and is a member of the Council of Wisdom at the Family Business Network, helping mobilize family enterprises for positive change. Risto is known for a practical, results-driven approach to impact investing, and regularly advises and speaks on finance for good.

曹慰德 Chavalit Frederick Tsao

Chairman, TPC (Tsao Pao Chee)

Chavalit Frederick Tsao is the fourth-generation steward of TPC (Tsao Pao Chee), a family business with more than 120 years of history, established in the late 1800s during the Qing Dynasty. He was born in Hong Kong, China, and after completing his education at the University of Michigan, Chavalit joined the family business at the age of 20 and became the chairman at the age of 37. He also served as the chairman of Intercargo, where he established innovative platforms to promote collaboration within the maritime sector.

Chavalit’s background and experience gave him unique insights into global sustainability challenges and founded East West Cultural Development Centre in 1995 to research this topic. He discovered that integrating ancient wisdom and modern science creates a holistic approach to cultivating leadership for this era.

曹慰德是曹宝记（TPC）第四代掌门人，曹宝记（TPC）是曹氏家族于19世纪末期的清朝创立的品牌，已拥有超过120年跨越四代的传承历史。曹慰德出生成长于中国香港，自美国密歇根大学毕业后，于20岁时加入了家族企业，并于37岁时接管了家族企业。他亦曾任国际干散货船东协会（Intercargo）的主席，通过搭建创新平台促进海事领域内的合作。

历经深刻的文化浸润，曹慰德的人生阅历让他得以洞察全球可持续性挑战的解决方案，他于1995年成立了东西方文化发展中心并深入此课题的研究。他发现，培养服务幸福时代的领导力需要将古老东方智慧与现代科学相结合，构建一套整体体系。

Teng Zi Ying

Manager (Next Gen), Temasek Foundation

Zi Ying is a Manager of Next-Generation Programmes at Temasek Foundation. She co-curates programmes and catalytic partnerships across the Philanthropy, Private and Public sectors regionally. She has worked with at-risk youth on Singapore’s streets and incarcerated fathers in London through trauma-informed arts programmes. A Presidential appointee to the Youth Court Panel of Advisors, she also advises on national youth justice policies and matters. As part of National Youth Council’s INSPIRIT leaders, Zi Ying has facilitated high-level dialogues—including with PM Lawrence Wong and Minister K Shanmugam—on key social issues impacting the next generation.

Joanne Teh

Head of Coaching, OCTAVE Institute

Joanne Teh is Head of Coaching at OCTAVE Institute and an ICF Master Certified Coach with 3,000+ coaching hours. She designs and delivers leadership and organisation-development programmes that catalyse inner transformation and tangible change across individual, team, organisational and system levels. Joanne partners senior leaders in government, corporates and family enterprises to anchor on purpose, remain centred under pressure, navigate change, and build high-trust and high-performing cultures. Her approach centres on presence-based practices, inquiry and somatic-based action learning and holistic system sensemaking. Her strength lies in connecting these systems—translating being into doing, strategy into practice, and enabling transformation and succession with depth and scale.

Joanne is also a Certified Master of Career Services, Team & Agile Coach, and a Marshall Goldsmith Coaching Scholar. Joanne holds an EMBA from the Quantic School of Business and Technology, an MA from Harvard University, and a BA (Hons) from the University of Chicago.

Shin Gee Tan

Senior Director, Programmes, Temasek Foundation

Tan Shin Gee is Senior Director at Temasek Foundation where she leads the Next-Generation programmes team to nurture future-ready learners and changemakers to be a powerful force for good. Prior to Temasek Foundation, Shin Gee was Director of Strategy, Mandates and Impact at Temasek Trust which is a steward of philanthropic assets, advocate of sustainability, and catalyst of positive impact.

Her foray into the philanthropic and impact sector builds on 20 years of experience in the Singapore public service, spanning roles as Chief Transformation Officer and Chief Learning Officer at the Land Transport Authority, as well as policymaking and industry development roles at the Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Finance and Economic Development Board.

Shin Gee has a Masters of Arts in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, a Masters of Science in Applied Finance from the Singapore Management University, and a Bachelors of Science in Economics from University College London.

Mario Tadinac

Media and Mixed Reality Technologist, OceanX

Mario Tadinac is a Media & Mixed Reality Technology Specialist with OceanX Singapore, where he combines advanced visual technology with compelling storytelling to connect global audiences to the ocean. As part of OceanX’s Public Programming pillar, he develops immersive media experiences that advance the organization’s mission to unlock the ocean’s sustainable potential and inspire the next generation of ocean stewards.

With more than 15 years in documentary and media production, Mario has filmed and produced stories that have aired worldwide. His cinematography credits include National Geographic’s OceanXplorers series and documentary films such as The Azores: Crossroads of the Atlantic, The Art of Studying Deep-Sea Corals, and Studying the Twilight Zone of a Norwegian Fjord. He has also contributed to major productions including Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning and documented research aboard OceanX’s flagship vessel, the OceanXplorer.