Esther joined City Developments Limited (CDL) in 1995 to set up the Company’s Corporate Communications department and subsequently established the company’s CSR/Sustainability portfolio. A pioneer CSR practitioner for over 20 years and a committee member of the Global Compact Network Singapore, which is the local network of UN Global Compact, she is instrumental in building up the company’s leadership in Sustainability.

CDL is the first Singapore company to be included on 3 leading global sustainability listings, namely the FTSE4Good Index Series since 2002, the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World since 2010 and Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes since 2011.In the 2016 Global100 Listing, CDL is ranked 10thoverall and top amongst real estate companies globally. The company has also been ranked top Asian developer in the Channel NewsAsia Sustainability Ranking for three consecutive years since 2014.

It was also conferred the Business Leadership in Sustainability Award by the World Green Building Council and the top honours for the Sustainable Business Awards by Singapore Business Federation, amongst many other accolades. The first Singapore-listed company to publish a GRI-checked Sustainability Report in 2008, CDL has adopted the Integrated Reporting approach since 2015.

A signatory of the UN Caring for Climate initiative and a champion in green building and sustainability, Esther is a member of the World Green Building Council’s Corporate Advisory Board and the Urban Land Institute Women’s Leadership Initiative Singapore Steering Committee.

Ms Arabadjieva joined the Manager in September 2017 as the Head of Investor Relations and was
promoted to COO and Head of Investor Relations in September 2018. As COO, Ms Arabadjieva is responsible for sustainability, business continuity and general business operations. As Head of Investor Relations, Ms Arabadjieva is responsible for overall investor and stakeholder engagement, marketing and communications as well as continuous disclosure and transparent communications with the unitholders and the market.

Ms Arabadjieva is an experienced investor relations and communications professional with over 20
years of experience in Asia and held a number of senior marketing, sales and communications positions in Singapore. Prior to joining the Manager, Ms Arabadjieva was the Head of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications of Cambridge Industrial Trust Management Limited (now known as ESR Funds Management (S) Limited). Prior to ESR-REIT, Ms Arabadjieva was the Director of Investor Relations of Genting Singapore PLC (listed on the SGX-ST).

Ms Arabadjieva holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from the University of Architecture, Civil
Engineering and Geodesy (Bulgaria) and a Masters of Business Administration from INSEAD (France and Singapore).

Erwin is co-founder and product evangelist at Tangelo Software. Their software platform, Tangelo, streamlines corporate reporting processes by allowing Investor Relations, Sustainability, Finance, Remuneration, and other teams to produce custom corporate reports ‘in-house’. And—with a single source, multi-channel approach—makes it easier to meet the challenges in an increasingly demanding corporate reporting landscape. In this context, Erwin leads research into global financial and ESG reporting trends and regularly presents insights on current and future developments at international events. Most recently, the focus is on the announcements of new ESG reporting standards, machine-readable formats for ESG metrics, and digital communication with a multi-stakeholder ESG audience.

Joshua Lee is currently a Senior Portfolio Manager with Bank of Singapore. He has more than a decade of multi-asset investment experience in both sell-side and buy-side roles.

Prior to joining Bank of Singapore, he worked as an equity research analyst for Deutsche Bank covering multiple sectors in Singapore and Malaysia. He was also a portfolio manager at Magenta Advisors and Blue Rice Investment Management, two hedge funds with a focus on fixed income investments.

Joshua holds a Bachelor of Accounting degree with a major in Law from Singapore Management University. He is also a CFA charterholder and Chartered Accountant of Singapore.

Affryll has over 17 years of professional experience mainly in the financial services sector having started his career as an audit associate in a Big 4 accounting firm. Throughout his career, he has worn different hats doing business finance, strategy, corporate planning, business development and investor relations among others. Affryll currently manages the investor relations aspects of Tune Protect Group, a financial holding company listed on Bursa Malaysia where its key subsidiaries include a licensed non-life underwriter and an offshore non-life reinsurer. Early this year Affryll was tasked to oversee the sustainability agenda of Tune Protect Group. Given investors’ increased focus on ESG matters, the convergence of both the IR and sustainability function ensures a better alignment in telling investors the sustainability story of the company.

Thanat Thamrongsaksuvit is a professional of finance background with more than 15 years of work experience in Thai corporates and MNCs. He is currently holding a position as IR manager for PTT Exploration and Production Public company limited (PTTEP), a well-known oil and gas exploration and production company under PTT Group and it is one of the biggest listed companies in Thailand.

PTTEP recently won the Best Investor Relations award from the Stock Exchange of Thailand and many other awards including best professional IR from Asian Excellence award. Thanat is also nominated for Best Investors Relation officer (large cap) in this year IR magazine award.

Melissa V. Vergel de Dios, Investor Relations Head, and recently appointed Chief Sustainability Officer, has been with PLDT since May 2001 and held various positions including Property and Facilities Management Center Head. Prior to joining PLDT, she held various positions in the San Miguel Group of Companies where she started her professional career. Ms. Vergel de Dios obtained her Bachelor of Science Degree in Marketing and Management and Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from Assumption College.

Ms. Wong is in charge of Investor Relations and Corporate Affairs function of Sasseur REIT. She brings over 15 years of extensive international experience in investor relations, capital markets (buy-side), corporate banking, and has been actively involved in capital raising, M&A transactions, corporate strategy and business development.

As the liaison between SAMPL, Sasseur REIT and the investment community, Ms. Wong nurtures relationships with institutional and retail investors, research analysts and the media. She is also the main point of contact with investors and stakeholders as part of Sasseur REIT’s investor relations efforts. Her work has helped Sasseur REIT to clinch the Best Investor Relations award at the Asia Pacific REITs Award 2020 for two consecutive years – winning the Gold award in 2019 and the Platinum award in 2020 – for prompt and informative communication with stakeholders, analysts, media and the community.

Ms. Wong had extensive international exposure to various industries and roles, having worked and lived in 6 countries over the course of her career. Prior to joining Sasseur REIT, she held corporate banking positions at National Australia Bank as well as investment analyst positions at asset management firms, before heading investor relations role at SGX Mainboard-listed oil and gas company, Falcon Energy Group Limited.

Ms. Wong holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Computational Finance) Degree from National University of Singapore. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Charterholder and Chartered Accountant of Singapore, as well as a member of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants. She is fluent in English, Chinese, Malay and Cantonese.

Ms Wong heads the investor relations and sustainability functions of Ascott Residence Trust (ART). She is responsible for providing strategic counsel to senior management and facilitating timely and effective communication with the investment community. In addition, she drives the sustainability efforts for ART, and is instrumental in elevating ART’s commitment towards ESG and achieving its sustainability ambitions.

Ms Wong brings with her over 10 years of relevant experience, in the areas of investor and public relations, asset management and marketing. Prior to joining ART, Ms Wong provided investor relations counsel to other Singapore-listed companies in the real estate, construction and technology sectors. Ms Wong also held positions in banking and wealth management.

Ms Wong obtained her Bachelor of Business Management from the Singapore Management University, with majors in Finance (Wealth Management) and Marketing. She has also obtained the International Certificate in Investor Relations from the Investor Relations Society of UK.

Laurie Havelock is a journalist, writer and podcaster who has worked with IR Magazine for almost a decade. Outside of writing about investor relations, corporate governance and green finance, he also works for the i newspaper as a news editor and culture writer. Away from writing, he works on several comedy podcasts including Podshambles and Idle Fantasy and was formerly a radio DJ, and hosted a weekly show on Shoreditch Radio called What’s Your Plan B? He lives in London with Mischa, his dog.

Tim Human is senior reporter at IR Magazine. He rejoined the publication in 2019 after two years working as a freelance writer for a range of international clients. Previously, he was editor of IR Magazine between 2013-2017. He has also written for Corporate Secretary, IR Magazine’s sister publication, and CorpComms, the UK-based magazine for corporate communications professionals.

Steve Wade is a content researcher and conference producer at IR Magazine where he is responsible for crowd-sourcing intelligence on the big global issues facing investor relations. Steve also creates events where the IROs and the wider financial community can discuss, debate and learn about ways to develop the IR function.

Prior to IR Magazine, Steven’s background has been in corporate social responsibility and responsible investment. During his time at Ethical Corporation (now Reuters Events), Steve launched the ESG symposium, an event focused on connecting the socially responsible investment community with corporate sustainability leaders at listed companies. Steve was a judge for the Deloitte Green Frog Awards, celebrating the best corporate reporting in Eastern Europe. Steve also presented research at the Global Sustainable Event Summit in London and has spoken about extra-financial reporting with the United Nations Global Compact, the World Bank and the Polish Ministry of Finance.

Steve has a degree in Event Management and enjoys playing rugby in his spare time.