Associate Professor Ethan Chong specialises in sustainable development, engineering design, and artificial intelligence. As the Head of Sustainability (Education and Research) in the Office of the Provost, he develops SIT’s overall strategy for educational programmes in sustainability while extending and synergizing applied research activities related to sustainability. Dr. Chong envisions an industry driven by cutting-edge technologies and a continuous learning paradigm founded upon the requirements of the future economy. In SIT, he also supports the industry in developing solutions and manpower through training, consultation, and R&D.

Mark Teo is an Assistant Professor of Design in the Business, Communication and Design cluster at the Singapore Institute of Technology. He has more than 15 years of experience, straddling practice and higher education, and has practiced in Singapore, Australia, and Canada. Mark is interested in how spaces impact people’s lifestylesand vice versa. He has crafted and overseen projects ranging from small lighting installations to conservation shophouses and multi-unit high-rise residential developments. Mark is a member of the Singapore Institute of Architects and served on the Sustainability Committee in 2009, during which he was a contributor to the institute’s policy paper on the attributes of a sustainable built environment. He is also serving on both the Sustainability Education Committee and the Sustainability Work Group at  the Singapore Institute of Technology. His current research interests are in human-centred design, sustainability, urban agriculture, and food security.

Professor Ho Yew Kee is a Professor of Accounting at the Singapore Institute of Technology.

Professor Ho obtained his accountancy education from Monash University, Australia and his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA. Professionally, he is a Fellow CPA Australia, a Fellow Chartered Accountant Singapore, and a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). He is also a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Director.

He spends most of his free time serving the communities and charities. He had held board- level appointments in organisations like The Boys’ Brigade in Singapore, Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Schools Management Committee, SATA CommHealth, Prison Fellowship Singapore, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, and the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (Singapore) amongst others.

Professor Ho is currently a director of a listed insurance company and serves on the boards of the National Kidney Foundation, St Luke’s Eldercare, Dover Park Hospice, CBMC (Singapore) Ltd., and CPA (Australia), amongst others. He is also a member, of the Advisory Councils, Institute of Certified Management Accountants, Sri Lanka, and Deakin University Integrated Reporting Centre, Australia.

Dr. Kevin Ow Yong is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Singapore Institute of Technology. He holds a First Class Honours Degree (with a University Medal) in Accounting from Nanyang Technological University and received his PhD degree from Duke University. He has previously worked at Peking University as an associate professor, Singapore Management University as an assistant professor, and Singapore Airlines as a regional accountant and financial analyst.

Dr. Ow Yong has been a Chartered Accountant (CA) and Certified Public Accountant (CPA) since 2003 as well as a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) since 2002. He currently sits on the IS Chartered Accountant Journal Editorial Advisory Panel. He is also a member of the UAFRS Advisory Council with Valens Research. He has previously served on the Candidate Programmes Committee with the CFA Society (Singapore) and was on the advisory board with Brahm Centre, a non-profit charity organisation as their finance advisor.

His work has been published in numerous well-known accounting research journals, including the Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, European Accounting Review, Advances in Accounting, and China Journal of Accounting Research.  He has been cited in two of Singapore’s most well-circulated newspapers, the Straits Times and the Business Times on several occasions, and in CPA Singapore (Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants publication), Accounting and Business (ACCA publication), Pulses (previously, the Singapore Stock Exchange Journal), Asian Scientist, Smart Investor, QFinance and CFO Asia, a publication of The Economist Group. He has also received invitations to speak at several top ranking universities in China,including Tsinghua University, Sun Yat-Sen University and Xiamen University as well as other famous universities in the Asia-Pacific region. He was invited as a guest lecturer to teach at Kozminski University, the top private university in Poland, and at Kyushu University, widely regarded as one of the top ten best universities in Japan.

In recognition of his research work, he has won the Second Best Paper Award at the Chicago Quantitative Alliance Academic Competition, the Best Paper Award from the Third International Conference of Accounting and Finance (Danang City, Vietnam), and the Best Paper Award from the China Journal of Accounting Research Symposium (Guangzhou, China). He has received several research grants for his research work, including a research grant from the KPMG Foundation and the International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER) in 2011 and the prestigious Ministry of Education Tier II educational grant in 2015 for his research work on fair value accounting.

Dr. Jenson is an Associate Professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology, focuses on the design and implementation of systems thinking and system dynamics curriculum for students and leaders while fulfilling his duties as a faculty member in the Engineering Cluster in applied learning and research. He is also a member of the university's sustainability group, responsible for curating and driving sustainability education among students and leaders in the industry.

He is the Chief Executive Officer of a boutique company called Coddiwompling that focuses on supporting organisations and leaders to drive transformative changes, especially from a system perspective. His company offers consultancy, customised leadership development programmes, coaching or mentoring, and strategic facilitation services and consulting to over 60 satisfied organisations in Singapore and overseas. Dr. Jenson has years of consulting work across the globe in diverse industries. He is still well sought after by companies around the world for his knowledge and capabilities in leading transformational work.

Dr. Jenson previously held Chief Information, Learning and Sustainability Officer positions in Monde Nissin Group, a publicly listed USD1 billion multi-national company HQ in the Philippines, and had driven many successful leadership learning programmes (especially in coaching or mentoring and systems thinking) and digital transformation and sustainability's strategies and projects across Philippines, Thailand, and Singapore.

Before that, he was Director of Studies at Residential College 4. His responsibility involved the realisation of a transformative programme to develop students into capable system thinkers. He was an international award-winning teaching case writer and multiple-year NUS teaching award winner. His research strives to uncover ways to help organisations/society deal with wicked problems. He had published articles in top-tier journals and conferences, books, press, and practitioner’s publications.

Dr Jenson also had over 16 years in strategising IT use as a Chief Enterprise Architect. He had extensive experience driving IT initiatives to support the university’s teaching, research, and administration. In 2003, he was selected by the Infocomm Authority of Singapore and Sun Microsystems for the prestigious 8-month Java Black Belt programme to be groomed as a leader in Singapore’s IT industry. For his innovative use of IT and service to the University, he has won over 20 international and national awards, which include the NUS Service Champion and NUS IT Director's awards.

Dr. Jenson had served as the Head of Manpower and Logistics (NS) in the Singapore Police Force, responsible for the operational readiness of 1,600 NSmen, for more than 10 years. For his dedication, he received multiple awards from the Commissioner of Police and Division Commander, including the most prestigious Home Team NS man of the year award in 2018. Dr. Jenson is an avid societal contributor. He is a board member of Casa Raudha (www.casaraudha.org), an Executive Committee member of the Tech Talent Assembly (www.ttab.org.sg), the Chairman of Singapore Our Home SG75 National Youth Competition (www.sg75.sg), and the President of the Asia Pacific Coordinating Policy Council and Policy Council member of the System Dynamics Society (www.systemdynamics.org).

Steve Kardinal Jusuf is an Associate Professor in the Engineering Cluster, SIT. He is a Chartered Engineer (UK) and Member of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (MCIBSE); a member of The Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES); and a certified LEED Green Associate (a US-based green building rating system).

He serves as the Co-Chair of the Sustainability Education Committee (SEC) at the Singapore Institute of Technology. His expertise and research interests are in green building technology and sustainability; Building Information Modelling (BIM) and building energy simulation; and neighbourhood microclimate modelling.

He is a member of several national-level working groups, setting up industry standards and guidelines. He is also a member of the Passive Displacement Coil Technical Working Group, developing TR 102:2022 technical reference, a code of practice for passive displacement cooling (PDC) systems for air-conditioning applications. He was a member of the Resource Efficiency Working Group of Clean and Green Standard for Urban Farms (Agriculture), developing SS 661:2020, a specification for clean and green urban farms — Agriculture, led by SFA.

Dr Jeffrey Kwik is currently an Associate Professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology involved in their sustainability program. He was a senior researcher at the National University of Singapore studying various aspects of community ecology and biology in Singapore’s aquatic habitats; a lecturer at the University of Queensland co-ordinating their Australian marine biology programs; and a lecturer at Temasek Polytechnic teaching aquaculture, fish husbandry, health, and disease management.

Dr Kwik is a fish biologist and ecologist with more than 30 years of experience studying fishes in both freshwater and marine habitats, and across tropical to temperate ecosystems in countries including Singapore, Indonesia, Fiji, and Australia. His specific areas of expertise include trophic and community ecology, growth and development, invasive biology, reproductive biology, and the sensory biology of fishes. He has more than 30 publications on fish research in journals such as the Journal of Morphology, Ecological Engineering, Biological Invasions, Hydrobiologia, and Journal of Applied Ichthyology; and is on the journal editorial boards of the Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology and Aquatic Ecosystems Health and Management.

Since 2005, he also has been involved in several consultancies looking at the aquatic diversity in Singapore’s waters including five PUB-commissioned involving applied research projects such as studying the freshwater fish communities and characterizing the food webs in the reservoirs and waterways of Singapore; researching the environmental impacts of floating solar panels on the aquatic and avian communities within and along the perimeters of reservoirs; and most recently, investigating the applications of nature-based solutions (i.e. biomanipulation techniques) for improving water quality and controlling nuisance issues (i.e., midges) in Singapore’s reservoirs.

Dr. Hu Chengcheng has over 10 years of experience in the field of sustainability research and application, collaborating with diverse stakeholders including government agencies and industry sectors such as manufacturing, technology, finance, food, and oil & gas, translating strategy into actions. She is a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) subject expert helping clients in comprehending and mitigating the carbon footprints of their products and services to enhance sustainability.

Her professional journey includes a significant tenure at Environmental Resources Management (ERM) Consulting, where she held the position of Principal Consultant, spearheading initiatives in product sustainability and carbon finance. In this role, she delved into various aspects of sustainability, including circular economy practices, sustainable supply chains, greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting and reporting, assurance, and sustainability finance, among others.

Before ERM, Chengcheng worked in the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) as a research scientist, specialising in LCA methodology research and development. Her responsibilities extended to supporting governmental agencies in regulatory research and development, while also guiding industries—ranging from multinational corporations to small and medium-sized enterprises—in the formulation of strategies for decarbonisation transactions, waste management, and circular economy applications.

Chengcheng received her doctoral degree in Environmental Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), complemented by the prestigious NRF Clean Energy scholarship. Additionally, she has acquired numerous global sustainability certifications from reputable institutions such as Cambridge and DTU, alongside obtaining the Advanced Certificate in Learning and Performance (ACLP) from WSQ. Beyond her professional endeavours, Chengcheng likes flora design and outdoor sports. Moreover, she actively participates in community activities during her leisure time, reflecting her commitment to holistic well-being and societal contribution.

Tiffany serves as an Assistant Professor of Finance at University College Dublin, where her passion lies in instilling in future professionals the importance of integrating sustainability into their endeavours. Her vision encompasses a financial landscape that drives impactful environmental progress, striving towards a more sustainable and just global community for future generations. Previously, she held the role of Academic Director for the MSc Sustainable Finance programme (previously known as Renewable Energy and Environmental Finance) at University College Dublin. With a banking background, she is keen to learn and develop ESG and data science research ideas.

Natalie Seisser is a multifaceted design educator and practitioner. She is the founder of anewkind.studio, a purpose-driven, Life-centric design and strategy studio.

Her academic pursuits revolve around interdisciplinary Design Studios, where she lectures with a fervent commitment to equipping students with the necessary skills to address complex global challenges. Her curriculum emphasises experiential learning and real-world applications, ensuring that her students are well-prepared to navigate complex global challenges.

Natalie serves as a lecturer for the Bachelor of Design programme, teaching Responsible Communication at the Singapore Institute of Management Global Education (SIM-RMIT University). She has also served as a lecturer for the Sustainability Management Module at the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT), where she has instructed on sustainability business models, strategies for climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as sustainable development policies. Natalie's areas of specialisation encompass Life-Centered Design, Circular Economy, Sustainable Business Models, Packaging, Responsible Communication, Creative Direction, and Branding.

In addition to her academic pursuits, Natalie Seisser actively contributes to the broader sustainability discourse as a facilitator and country lead for the Biodiversity Collage in Singapore - a collaborative workshop aimed at understanding the challenges and pressures on biodiversity, drawing insights from the IPBES Report.

Furthermore, she leads the Climate Designers Singapore Chapter, a community dedicated to igniting climate conversations through creative work, showcasing her commitment to fostering dialogue and action on environmental issues through the lens of design.