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 10th overall 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.

Mr. Fung Leng Chen serves as the Head of Investor Relations & Research at Frasers Centrepoint Asset Management Ltd., the manager of Frasers Centrepoint Trust. Mr. Chen is responsible for fCt’s investor relations function, he covers investor targeting, media and unitholder communication, as well as to provide market intelligence and research support to management. Mr. Chen leads the Frasers Centrepoint investor relations function, which covers investor targeting, media and Unitholder communication, as well as providing market intelligence and research support to management. He has more than five years of experience in investor relations. He holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering (Honours), both degrees from the National University of Singapore.

Sid Choraria is an Asian equities investor focused on dominant franchises in Asian markets in China, India, Japan and South East Asia with the philosophy to own wonderful businesses at wonderful prices.

He served as Portfolio Manager and Head of Asian Equities Research at Amiral Gestion in Singapore, a global investment firm founded in 2003. Previously, he worked as Portfolio Manager and Vice President at APS Asset Management, a $3bn Asian hedge fund. He has worked in Asia at Goldman Sachs technology, media & telecom investment banking in Hong Kong, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong.

In 2013, Sid piqued the attention of legendary Warren Buffett with a letter and investment thesis on a wide moat Japanese company, which elicited a rare response from Mr. Buffett on the quality of the business, encouraging Sid to keep his eyes open in Asia.

Sid has been a repeat winner of several global investment research awards, judged by over 70 global fund managers and allocators in the last 6 years at SumZero, Ira Sohn, FactSet and Value Investing Congress. In 2015, he was the recipient of the “Best Analyst Excellence” Award by SumZero from a pool of over 13,000 analysts and fund managers globally. In 2014, he won the “Best Global Short Award” from Factset.

His research has been cited in leading global media including CNBC, Bloomberg, Manual of Ideas, Forbes, Sydney Morning Herald, Business Insider, Alpha Ideas India and Value Spain. He has been invited to speak at leading universities and institutions including Harvard, Yale, NYU Stern, Columbia University, Government of Investment Corp (GIC), SMU and NUS.

Sid received his MBA from New York University in 2011 and was recipient of the Harvey Beker Scholarship. During his MBA, Sid worked at Bandera Partners LLC in New York under value investor, Jeff Gramm, Founder of Bandera Partners, Author of “Dear Chairman” and Adjunct Value Investing Professor of Columbia Business School.

Talib Dohadwala is a Managing Partner and one of the founding partners of Integral Capital Pte. Ltd., and has a combined 25 years of investment experience. Prior to starting up Integral Capital in August 2011, he was a Senior Consultant with global investment consultancy Cambridge Associates for about 4 years. Prior to that, he spent his career in the Asian equity fund management industry. He began his investment career with Schroder Investment Management from 1994-1999. He subsequently worked with Allianz Asset Management as a Fund Manager from 1999 to 2001, and as Senior Portfolio Manager at First State Investments looking at Asia Pacific ex-Japan equities from 2001 to 2006. He graduated with a distinction in the Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto in 1992, and obtained the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) charter in 1998.

Ms Caroline Fong is the Head of Investor Relations and part of the C-Suite for Manulife US REIT. She is responsible for investor relations, communication and helps to steer the strategy and capital markets requirements for the REIT.
Ms Fong has over 14 years of experience in investor relations, capital markets and research. Prior to joining MUST, Ms Fong was Associate Director, Investor Relations and Corporate Finance in Temasek Holdings and Head of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications in ESR-REIT. At ESR-REIT, Ms Fong was instrumental in profiling the REIT to be the best performing industrial REIT and second best performing SREIT in 2013.
In addition, Ms Fong was formerly Head of Investor Relations for CapitaLand Mall Asia, where she was responsible for creating the narrative for the company’s retail businesses in Singapore and four other countries. Early in her career, Ms Fong was Associate Director, Listings at the Singapore Exchange, where she advised companies on corporate governance and the regulatory framework for public-listed companies in Singapore.
Ms Fong holds a Masters in Finance and Investment from the University of Nottingham, UK and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Banking and Finance from the University of London, UK.

Laurie Havelock is a journalist, writer and podcaster who has been working on financial titles for more than 5 years, dabbling with commercial property finance, responsible investment and investor relations as his main areas of focus. Outside of that he also writes about music, with a predilection for independent and emerging artists, has worked on a number of comedy projects, including a podcast he makes with musical comedian Paddy Gervers called Podshambles, and hosts a weekly show on Shoreditch Radio. Laurie has been published in the Independent, the Guardian and Q Magazine.

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.

Melanie Morfill is the Sales Director for APAC at Intrado Digital Media. Melanie has over 15 years of experience in servicing Investor Relations departments.

She joined this industry at Thomson Reuters (Paris) in 2004. She started at Intrado Digital Media (previously West) last year further to the acquisition of Nasdaq Corporate Solutions where she worked for 5 years. In her current role, Melanie brings the valuable combined perspective of Intrado Digital Media’ many Asian listed clients as well as the 10,000+ clients globally the Intrado Digital Media team assists on a daily basis.

Melanie was educated in France and holds a Master’s Degree from the Graduate School of Management in Troyes (France). She gained her Asia Pacific regional experience during her 11 years living in Sydney.

B.Grimm Power (BGRIM) is one of Thailand’s leader in utilities sector who has recently expanded business rapidly in Southeast Asia including the previous commercial operation of the largest solar farm in Southeast Asia, located in Vietnam. BGRIM’s share price has risen by approximately 100% year-to-date. Solaya was the sell-side analyst for 15 years at Maybank Kimeng Thailand and SCB Securities in Thailand, covering telecom, electronics and power sectors before moving to be head of IR at B.Grimm Power for the past 14 months.

Vijay Natarajan has over ten years of equity research experience covering mainly Singapore Real estate and REITs sector.

Jeff is Continuum Economics’ Chief Economist of Asia. He manages a group of analysts based in Singapore, providing economic analysis on the region. Jeff is also the lead analyst on China and Singapore. He regularly presents to clients and appear at the media. Previously, Jeff was Head Investment Office, Asia for Deutsche Bank Wealth Management, where he was responsible Asian for market investment views. Prior to that, he spent more than 7 years with Standard Chartered Bank as an Asia and ASEAN Economist. Jeff graduated from the National University of Singapore with an Economics degree, and received a Masters’ in Management and Strategy from the London School of Economics.

Natalia has joined the ING Sustainable Finance APAC team in 2019, where she is working on structuring sustainable finance products, enhanced by deep responsible investors knowledge. Prior to ING, Natalia was ESG Analyst at Aviva Investors, a global leader in responsible investment. At Aviva, she supported the investment team with ESG analysis and engaged with boards on pertinent ESG issues. Natalia has also worked at Corporate Citizenship, a sustainability consultancy and an impact investment foundation in Singapore.

Natalia holds a BBA from The Hague University and an MSc in Economic History from The London School of Economics and Political Science.

Pattarawan joined Asia Aviation 2014 as an investor relations manager. She strives to fairly convey the company’s strategy, performance, and outlook to the investment community, financial media, and all other stakeholders. As the head of investor relations, she increased sellside coverage from 21 to 30 brokers within 3 years. She also led a program to diversify the company’s stakeholder base. For instance, international shareholders increased by 8% within the first 12 months of instituting her program. In 2018, the company was recognized as having outstanding investor relations at the SET Awards
With her 9 years of IR experience, she was a speaker in the Topic of “Good Practices for Analyst Presentation” to IROs, arranged by Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) in 2014. In addition, she wrote Investor Relations Handbook as Co-editor which was published by SET in 2012.
Prior to Asia Aviation, she had 4 years of experience in IR at the leading Oil and Gas conglomerate, PTT, and took part in merger and acquisition activities within PTT group as well as in the issuance of PTT’s USD Bond. She began her career at Ernst & Young Co. Ltd as a senior auditor, specializing in the financial services industry.
Pattarawan has a Master of Science (MSc) in Finance and Investment from the University of Durham and a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Assumption University where she received the Rector’s certificate of Honors.

Ms. Jiraphan Thongtan is a management serving as Head of Investor Relations of CPALL Plc.  She has been with CPALL for 5years. Prior to the current role, she served Central Retail Corporation Group in similar role for 14 years handling 2 listed companies simultaneously i.e. Robinson Plc. and COL Plc.  She got BA in Finance from Thammasat University, and MSc in Finance from Chulalongkorn University together with MSc in Business Economics from NIDA.