Ambassador Chan Heng Chee is Ambassador-at-Large with the Ministry of  Foreign Affairs, Singapore and SUTD Honorary Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew Centre  for Innovative Cities in the Singapore University of Technology and Design. 

She is a member of the Presidential Council for Minority Rights. 

Ambassador Chan is the Chair of ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, the premier research  Institute on Southeast Asia in the region. Ambassador Chan serves as the Deputy Chairman of the Social Science Research Council. She is a member of the Yale-NUS Governing Board and a Trustee of the University of the Arts Singapore. 

Ambassador Chan is Global Co-Chair of Asia Society. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Previously, she was Singapore’s Ambassador to the United States and Singapore’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations with concurrent accreditation as  High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador to Mexico.
 
Ambassador Chan has received several awards including The Public Administration Medal (Gold); The Meritorious Service Medal; The Distinguished Service Order and 
honorary degrees from Universities in the United Kingdom, Australia and Singapore. 

She was Chairman of the National Arts Council, 2013-2019. 

When Ambassador Chan left Washington at the end of her appointment, she received the inaugural Asia Society Outstanding Diplomatic Achievement Award, the inaugural Foreign Policy Outstanding Diplomatic Achievement Award 2012, and the United States Navy Distinguished Public Service Award.

Ms Foo Mee Har is the CEO of the Wealth Management Institute (WMI) as well as a member of WMI’s Board of Trustees. Founded by GIC and Temasek, WMI is Asia’s Centre of Excellence for wealth and asset management education and research. Under Ms Foo’s leadership, WMI has grown into a leading education institute with over 17,000 enrolments annually. It serves a diverse community of professionals across Asia—including wealth and asset managers, lawyers, trust professionals, family offices, and financial regulators. WMI helms the Global-Asia Family Office Circle, a network platform that fosters a trusted environment to build capabilities and community in the family office sector. The GFO Circle is supported by the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). WMI is also host of the Asia Centre for Changemakers, supported by Temasek Trust and the Philanthropy Asia Alliance.

Ms Foo served as a Member of Parliament in Singapore from 2011 to 2025. She held key appointments, including Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee and the Estimates Committee—select committees of the Singapore Parliament. She also served as Vice-Chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Finance and Trade & Industry, and as a member of the Government Parliamentary Committees for Education and Manpower.

Ms Foo started her career in management consulting. Her private sector experience includes a two-decade stint with Standard Chartered Bank, during which she held a number of senior positions including Global Head for Priority Banking & International Banking covering 30 markets in Asia, Middle East and Africa; President & CEO of Standard Chartered Bank Thailand; as well as Country Head of Consumer Banking China. She brings over 30 years of experience in both the private and public sectors, including leading a diverse portfolio of international businesses.

Ms Foo graduated with a Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) degree from the University of New South Wales, Australia, with a major in Occupational Psychology. She has attended executive management programmes at the London Business School, Templeton College (Oxford University), and INSEAD.

She is married with 2 sons, has lived and worked in several countries including Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, China, and Thailand.

A global macro investor for more than 50 years, Ray Dalio founded Bridgewater Associates out of his two-bedroom apartment in NYC and ran it for most of its 47 years, building it into the largest hedge fund in the world and the fifth most important private company in the US according to Fortune Magazine.

His investment innovations (e.g., risk parity, alpha overlay, and All Weather) changed the way global institutions approach investing, and he has received several lifetime achievement awards. Over the decades he has been a valued macroeconomic advisor to many policy makers around the world. Because of the impact his thinking has had on global macroeconomic policies, he was named by TIME magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World.” Today, Ray remains an investor and mentor at Bridgewater and serves on its board. He is also the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Principles: Life and Work, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order, and Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises.

Ray graduated with a BS in Finance from C.W. Post College in 1971 and earned an MBA degree from Harvard Business School in 1973. He has been married to his wife, Barbara, for more than 40 years and has three grown sons and five grandchildren. He is an active philanthropist with special interests in ocean exploration and helping to rectify the absence of equal opportunity in education, healthcare, and finance.

Ms Tan Su Shan is the CEO and Director of DBS Group. DBS is the largest bank in Southeast Asia.  

Su Shan was previously the Deputy CEO and Group Head of Institutional Banking, and before that, Group Head of Consumer Banking and Wealth Management for close to a decade. She was also the President Commissioner for PT Bank DBS Indonesia from 2014 to 2024. 

Su Shan has over 35 years of experience in consumer banking, wealth management and institutional banking. Besides Singapore, she has experience in major financial centres such as Hong Kong, Tokyo and London. Before joining DBS, Su Shan was Morgan Stanley’s Head of Private Wealth Management for Southeast Asia. She has also worked at Citibank and prior to that at ING Barings. 

She served as a Nominated Member of Parliament in Singapore from 2012 to 2014. In August 2025, Su Shan was also appointed by the Singapore Government to the Economic Strategic Review Committee on Global Competitiveness which seeks to strengthen Singapore’s economic standing and relevance to the world. 

In 2025, Su Shan ranked 6th globally in Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Business List, making her the only Singaporean to feature in the Top 10. In the same year, Su Shan was ranked 28th globally in Fortune’s Most Powerful People in Business List as the only Singaporean in the Top 30. In 2024, she was also featured on Forbes Asia’s Power Businesswomen List. 

In 2019, The Asset named Su Shan as one of the six women in Asia who are likely to influence and feature prominently in shaping the banking and associated financial services industry in Asia. 

In 2018, she was nominated by Forbes Magazine as a “Top 25 Emergent Asian Woman Business Leader”. In the same year, she was also named “Retail Banker of the Year”, by the Digital Banker in their inaugural Global Retail Banking Innovation Awards. She was awarded the “Lifetime Achievement” award at the WealthBriefingAsia 2018 Awards. 
In October 2014, Su Shan became the first Singaporean to be recognised as the world’s “Best Leader in Private Banking” by PWM/The Banker, a wealth publication by the Financial Times Group. 

Su Shan sits on the advisory board of Dyson’s family office, Weybourne Holdings, as well as on the boards of the Singapore Economic Development Board and Climate Impact X Pte Ltd. She was previously on the board of the Central Provident Fund of Singapore (CPF Board), MPACT Management Ltd. (the Manager of Mapletree Pan Asia Commercial Trust), EvolutionX Debt Capital Pte. Ltd. (a fund focused on growth debt, founded jointly by Temasek and DBS), and The Singhealth Fund Limited, which provides financial support to needy patients. 

Married with two children, Su Shan is actively involved in fund-raising efforts for various Singapore charities. She is a member of the International Women’s Foundation and the Young Presidents Organisation, as well as an advisor to Oxford University's Lincoln College. She is also the Founder President of the Financial Women’s Association in Singapore, a non-profit organisation she founded and pioneered in 2001 to help develop and mentor women in the financial industry. 

Su Shan graduated with a Master of Arts from Lincoln College, Oxford University where she studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics. She has also completed executive leadership courses in Harvard Business School, Stanford Business School, and Singularity University.