Deepened women’s participation in boardrooms across SGX-listed companies, Statutory Boards and IPCs with more advancing into board leadership roles
The Council for Board Diversity (CBD) today released the Singapore Board Diversity Review, its study on gender diversity in the boardroom of companies listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX), at Statutory Boards and at Institutions of a Public Character (IPCs), covering more than 1,360 organisations. The study confirms the continued rise in women-held directorships across the private, public and people sectors, as well as offers new insights into board composition and director appointments.
Ang Wan Ching: Diverse perspectives spark solutions
A year into her board appointment at blue-chip Keppel Ltd., the veteran investment manager, who built a career in Europe, talks about pursuing opportunities where one can learn and contribute.
Lynette Tan will create a better future through the space economy
In doing so, the Chairwoman & CEO of Space Faculty is equally careful to nurture Earthly corporate concerns. She gives the Council for Board Diversity this wide-ranging interview about the business of space, why you need devil’s advocates on the board, and the one question she wishes people would stop asking her.
Dr Zhou Lihan is bolstering the future of preventive healthcare
On the eve of Mirxes’s listing application with The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, CBD sat down with the biotech’s far-sighted CEO and co-founder Dr Zhou Lihan to find out how cognitive diversity lends to his firm’s advancements in making the early detection of diseases accessible on a global scale.
Growth and profitability must be met with good governance says Tan Yinglan
For any company, much less a startup, the ability to see the bigger picture can only come from having a board and management that are diverse in not just gender and skills, but also age and experience. The founder and managing partner of Insignia Ventures Partners chats with CBD.