Ngee Kee Foo

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Foo Ngee Kee co-founded the Small and Medium Enterprise Association of Sabah and was elected the inaugural President in 2018. He was appointed a National Council member of SME Association of Malaysia and nominated to be a member of the HRDF Sectoral Training Committee for the Hospitality Industry. He was also appointed in 2019 as the Finance and Investment Advisor for both the Sabah-China Chamber of Commerce and the Malaysia-China Chamber of Commerce, Sabah Branch.

Paul Vandenberg

Paul Vandenberg is a Senior Economist at the Economic Research Department of Asian Development Bank in Manila. His research interests include industrialization, the middle-income trap, employment, small and medium enterprises, tech startups, and skills training. He previously worked at the ADB Institute in Tokyo and was a consultant for a number of years with the International Labour Organization. He has taught at the University of Bristol, the International Management Institute (New Delhi) and most recently at Thammasat University (Bangkok).

Yanti Triwadiantini

As Chair of the ASEAN CSR Network, Yanti Triwadiantini works with companies, SMEs, and entrepreneurs across 5 member-countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. Her initiatives include anticorruption and business ethics workshops in ASEAN member countries. She is also a Board Member of Indonesia Business Links (IBL), and Vice-President for Learning with the Indonesia Global Compact Network (IGCN), the local network of United Nations Global Compact in Indonesia.

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