Jessica Cheam Keynote Speaker

Jessica Cheam is the Founder and CEO of Eco-Business, Asia Pacific’s leading independent media and business intelligence organisation dedicated to sustainable development. She is recognised as a sustainability pioneer with two decades of experience in media, sustainable development and ESG issues globally.

She serves as an independent, non-executive director for Singapore-listed Wilmar International, Asia’s leading agribusiness group, and ComfortDelGro, one of the world’s largest land transport companies. She chairs both Wilmar’s and ComfortDelGro’s Board Sustainability Committee, and is a member of ComfortDelGro’s Audit & Risk Committee.

She is a regular columnist for national newspapers, is a Senior Accredited Director of the Singapore Institute of Directors (SID) and serves as its ESG committee member. She is also a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia and the UK’s Institute of Directors. She is accredited with INSEAD’s Certificate of Corporate Governance and the CFA Institute Certificate in ESG Investing.

Jessica specialises in advising the Boards of a wide range of government and multi-national organisations on corporate governance and ESG strategy, and has a particular interest in issues at the intersection of sustainability, technology and diversity.

She serves as Board Chair of EB Impact, a Singapore-registered focused on youth and education programmes, and Governing Board Member of the Singapore International Foundation, as well as advisor to Blue Planet Environmental Solutions, and a member of the International Women’s Forum Singapore.

She is the published author of the book ‘Forging a Greener Tomorrow: Singapore’s journey from slum to eco-city’ and also directs and produces impact-focused documentaries. Jessica also has a passion for driving sustainability innovation and building start-up ecosystems, including co-leading The Liveability Challenge, a global search for sustainability solutions in the urban tropics.

She was a Singapore Press Holdings scholar and has been recognised in many regional and international journalism and sustainability business awards, including Women of the Future Southeast Asia Awards, Gen.T List 2021, The Peak Power List, and LinkedIn’s Power Profiles, and is frequently invited to speak at and host discussions across the globe.