Speaker Categories: Well-being
Johanna Zuleta
Founder, La Zuleta
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.
Katy Yung
Chief Executive Officer, Sustainable Finance Initiative
Katy Yung
Chief Executive Officer, Sustainable Finance Initiative
Katy Yung is the Chief Executive Officer of Sustainable Finance Initiative (SFi), a global
platform created by and for Asia Pacific-focused private investors and changemakers, who
believe in mobilising private capital for positive impact. SFi advises, guides and collaborates
with impact driven family offices, asset owners, private investors, and financial services
professionals to best position their capital for profit and purpose.
Prior to founding SFi, Katy was Director of Investment at HK-based family office RS Group,
where she led their transition from a traditional investment portfolio to one that was 100%
sustainably invested. In this role, she was actively involved in designing and implementing
impact and climate change strategies across asset classes.
She started her career in investment banking at J.P. Morgan Securities (Asia Pacific)
Limited, where she focused on capital raising and M&A transactions across a diverse range
of sectors.
Katy graduated from Duke University, NC with a Bachelor degree in Economics,
Comparative Area Studies.
Dorji Yangki
Director of the Office of the Governor, Gelephu Mindfulness City Authority
Dorji Yangki
Director of the Office of the Governor, Gelephu Mindfulness City Authority
Dorji Yangki is the Managing Director of the Office of the Governor of Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC), Bhutan’s Special Administrative Region established under Royal Charter in 2023. One of Bhutan’s first female architects, she brings over three decades of experience in public service, academia, and private practice in Bhutan and abroad.
A former Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Dorji is a strong advocate for climate-resilient and biophilic design rooted in Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness values. She helped establish Bhutan’s first national heritage conservation office and led major restoration projects, including Taktsang Monastery and Semtokha Dzong. She also authored Bhutan’s first Green Building Guidelines and drafted the national Architecture Guidelines, now adopted nationwide.
Dorji has been a leader in advancing architecture in Bhutan and the region, serving as the first elected President of the Bhutan Institute of Architects and the first female Chair of the South Asian Association of Architects (SAARCH). She studied architecture in Australia and has trained internationally in Japan, France, Norway, the Netherlands, India, the USA, and the UK.
Britt Yamamoto
Founder, Perennial
Britt Yamamoto
Founder, Perennial
Dr. Britt Yamamoto is an entrepreneur, author, and educator whose work weaves together
agricultural wisdom, human well-being, and the evolving nature of leadership in a complex
world. His approach was shaped in the fields of California and the farmlands of Japan, where he
came to understand that many of life’s essential truths—patience, care, adaptability—are found
in living soil.
For over three decades, Britt has worked across the globe, designing and leading programs that
cultivate reflection, connection, and transformation. As the entrepreneur behind Perennial and
RootSpring, he has supported hundreds of thousands of people worldwide in building the inner
capacity and relational depth needed to live with greater purpose—responding to the demands
of today while nurturing the conditions for a more regenerative future.
His international best-selling book, The Soil of Leadership: Cultivating the Conditions for
Transformation, and his forthcoming work, The Hyakusho Way: Japanese Wisdom for a
Flourishing Life, offer a grounded philosophy and practical path for those seeking a more
expansive, rooted, and abundant way of being.
A Fulbright scholar with a PhD in Geography, Britt also serves as Clinical Associate Professor at
the University of Washington, where he continues to teach and mentor global changemakers
committed to a more connected and humane future.
Rosseana Wong
Advisory Council Member, OCTAVE Institute
Rosseana Wong
Advisory Council Member, OCTAVE Institute
Rosseana is a catalyst for human potential, with over 40 years’ experience shaping leadership and organisational culture across Asia. Formerly Head of the Chairman’s Office at IMC Pan Asia Alliance Group (now known as TPC), she championed staff well-being through transformative initiatives in development, counselling, and coaching, helping people break through limitations and thrive. An executive coach and psychotherapy graduate, she believes that self-awareness and acceptance are the keys to emotional wellbeing. In her “second life”, she is devoted to helping others cultivate meaningful relationships, purpose, and joy. Today, she serves as an Advisory Council Member and Principal Consultant at OCTAVE Institute, inspiring conscious, human-centred leadership.
Brian Wong
HKU-100 Assistant Professor in Philosophy, University of Hong Kong
Brian Wong
HKU-100 Assistant Professor in Philosophy, University of Hong Kong
Dr. Brian Wong is a HKU-100 Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. His research examines the ethics and dynamics of authoritarian regimes and their foreign policies, historical and colonial injustices, and the intersection of geopolitics, political and moral philosophy, and technology. His writings on Chinese political economy, Asian geopolitics, and public philosophy have been featured in publications such as TIME, Foreign Policy, Aeon, Financial Times, Diplomat, Fortune, The Hindu, South China Morning Post, Nikkei, Japan Times, and the US-Asia Law Institute. He has also been interviewed by BBC, CNBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, and CGTN for his views on Chinese foreign policy.
Claire Wong
Executive Director, DBS Foundation
Claire Wong
Executive Director, DBS Foundation
With a career spanning public sector economic development, banking and philanthropy, Claire is the Team Lead at the DBS Foundation. DBS Foundation uplifts lives and livelihoods of vulnerable communities by catalysing the growth of businesses to spark solutions to complex problems. Prior to this role, she spent more than 7 years with the Singapore Economic Development Board, involved in industry development in Singapore and as the Centre Director in Washington DC. Subsequently, she moved into consulting and then corporate banking for the energy sector.
Claire has a BSc (Economics) from the London School of Economics and Political Science and an MPhil (Economics) from the Christ College, University of Cambridge.
Robin Willoughby
Chief Strategy Officer, Tilt Collective
Robin Willoughby
Chief Strategy Officer, Tilt Collective
Robin Willoughby brings 20 years of experience as a director and leader in international affairs and environmental organizations with expertise on human rights, development, and sustainability issues. Robin was previously Co-founder and Managing Director at Madre Brava and has worked at the United Nations in New York; served as Head of Policy and Campaigns on Food and Climate Change at Oxfam GB; led research on energy and the environment at the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House) and directed the UK campaign work of environmental organization – Mighty Earth. He lives in London with his wife and two daughters.
魏巍 Wei Wei
Chairman, Vision Education Group
魏巍 Wei Wei
Chairman, Vision Education Group
2021年创建愿景教育集团,通过推动商业向善,在托育、早教、融合教育、职业培训等领域为城市儿童、流动儿童、特殊需求儿童提供托育与养育服务。
曾担任瑞银慈善基金会亚洲区主管,开创该集团在中国的慈善管理业务,为多家家族基金会提供慈善管理服务;儿童乐益会中国主管与国际计划中国区项目总监。分别为这两个机构制定机构战略发展规划,并负责规划的实施,包括筹款、政府关系、人力资源发展等工作,资助并参与管理了教育、生计、卫生、健康等领域的百余个项目,项目覆盖十六个省市。
魏巍拥有二十年年的中国公益领域机构发展与项目管理经验,在组织机构能力建设方面亦颇有建树,为国内多家非公募基金会以及非营利机构提供战略规划、项目管理、筹款等方面的咨询与支持,通过中国基金会秘书长培训网络,培训了超过两百家基金会的秘书长与高级管理人员。
魏巍持有斯坦福大学经济学学士学位及西方古典学学士学位。
Wei founded the Vision Education Group to provide early childhood care and development services to inclusive education to children, including migrant children and children with special needs. Prior to Vision, Wei joined the UBS Optimus Foundation as its Director in Asia in 2013 and launched its philanthropy management services for family foundations in the region. Wei has more than twenty years of experience in social development and philanthropy in China. As the China Director of Right To Play, Wei built the organization as a leading child development agency in China with programs in sixteen provinces for children in poverty and initiated one of the largest early childhood care and development program in the country. Wei built strong partnerships with more than twenty multinational and Chinese businesses, and provided capacity building services to many local NGOs. Wei co-founded five microfinance institutions in rural China and sits on the board of several local NGOs. Wei also worked as the Program Director of Plan International in China and Senior Program Officer in Pact.
Diana Watson
Head, Sustainability and Impact Investment, Tsao Family Office
Diana Watson
Head, Sustainability and Impact Investment, Tsao Family Office
Diana is an impact investor with a global lens and a mission: to direct capital toward solutions that drive meaningful change for people and planet.
With a background spanning ESG, impact investing, corporate responsibility and philanthropy, she brings a multi-dimensional approach to investing – across asset classes. Whether it’s backing visionary fund managers or supporting bold entrepreneurs, Diana is focused on opportunities where financial performance goes hand in hand with social and environmental value.
Diana has a particular passion for deploying capital in emerging and frontier markets, where innovation, resilience and unmet needs intersect to create extraordinary potential for impact.