Dr Tan Lai Yong
Director, Outreach and Community Engagement, College of Alice & Peter Tan, National
Upon graduation from NUS in 1985, Dr Tan Lai Yong worked as a doctor in Singapore. In 1996, he and his wife, and one year old daughter moved to Yunnan, China, and joined a community development team, working with the poverty affected in remote villages, caring for orphans, disabled children and leprosy affected.In his 15 years on Yunnan, he had to cycle about 30 km daily, create innovative ways to teach health and hygiene to the different Minority Ethnic groups and villages, plan for “surgery camps” for cleft palate babies and other disabled people, and also initiated tree planting (eg walnut) efforts that led to thousands of trees being planted to help raise farm income and also reduce soil erosion. As part of the China National Day celebrations in 2004, Lai Yong was given the Friendship Award for Foreign Experts at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, an event that was graced by Premier Wen Jia Bao.
Kuik Shiao-Yin
Nominated MP, Co-Founder of Thought Collective
SHIAO-YIN started work at 22 as a co-founder/creative director of a digital design start-up in 2000. Sharing a common ambition to address apathy in the younger generation, she left the dot com world to start School of Thought with Tong Yee and Elizabeth Kon in 2002. Together, the trio lead a group of social businesses known as The Thought Collective whose mission is to build up the social and emotional capital of their city. They create strategic media, events and programmes that facilitate cross-sector conversations for the common good.
Outside of the Collective, she served the public sector twice as a Nominated Member of Parliament in the 12th and 13th Parliament of Singapore. Sharing her insights into the emotional and narrative roots of change, she also helps the boards and committees she sits on strategically shape their approach to developing youth talent (SCAPE*), nurturing cross-cultural harmony (OnePeople.sg), strengthening national identity (Founder's Memorial Committee) and
Yeung David
Co-founder of Green Monday
David Yeung is the CEO and co-founder of Green Monday, Hong Kong.
Mr. Yeung launched Green Common in Hong Kong to introduce Food 2.0. He is also a Director of Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (SIYLI),Hong Kong AIDS Foundation, and Hong Kong Buddhist Association.
Yeung has been named by The Purpose Economy as "Asia's 100 Pioneers,", by the Junior Chamber International Hong Kong as "Ten Outstanding Young Persons 2015,", and received multiple awards from Hong Kong media for his promotion of green living. He is also the author of a number of books on applied Buddhism and Zen philosophy, Hong Kong's first dine-out guide for vegetarians ("Go Green 88 Restaurant Guide"), and a regular columnist on major Hong Kong journals including East Week, Hong Kong Economic Times ETNet and U Magazine. Yeung was also winner of U Magazine's "U Green Award 2016"
Yeung, a graduate of Columbia University,is the Managing Director of Fortune Park Holdings and Chairman of retail groups Visual Cultu