Dialog non-profit The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has appointed Su-E Yap as director of company engagement for the Asia Pacific area.
Based mostly in Singapore, her function will deal with working with firms within the area, to make sure they’re “the answer, not the issue” for local weather and biodiversity points, she mentioned in a LinkedIn submit to announce her new place on Wednesday.
The company engagement function is a newly created place inside TNC’s lately established impression finance and markets division.
“On this function, I hope to search out new methods to develop and construct commercially sustainable options that work in Asia. I’m most enthusiastic about partnering not simply with the largest world gamers but additionally the native and regional heavyweights within the monetary, forestry, agriculture and fisheries sectors,” she instructed Eco-Enterprise.
Yap joins TNC 4 months after the 72 year-old non-governmental organisation formally launched an workplace in Singapore, which serves as a worldwide hub for partnerships, innovation and analysis, centered on addressing local weather change and biodiversity loss.
TNC operates in 70 territories, and in Singapore focuses on driving sustainable options, elevating local weather and conservation funding and reworking enterprise practices.
Yap was beforehand vp of sustainability-focused enterprise builder Wavemaker Influence, which helps corporations seeking to decarbonise.
Over her profession, she has labored for consulting agency McKinsey and was additionally a senior economist for Singapore’s central financial institution and regulator Financial Authority of Singapore.
