Trisha Suresh leads LinkedIn’s public policy strategy and programmes in Singapore and Southeast Asia. In this role, she partners with governments and economic institutions to advance LinkedIn’s vision to create economic opportunities for every member of the global workforce. She also works with LinkedIn’s data scientists and economists to leverage insights from LinkedIn’s Economic Graph to help shape and inform policies on skills and workforce development priorities.

Based in Singapore, Andrew Staples is the Asia Pacific Director of Economist Impact, the Policy, and Insights arm of The Economist Group. He leads a team of consultants and analysts who provide best-in-class research and analysis, creative storytelling, events expertise, design-thinking solutions, and market-leading media products.

Jennifer E. Lopez is the Director III of the Bureau of Human Resource and Organizational Development (BHROD), Department of Education.

While serving as lecturer, Dr. Kelvin Peh is also a Principal Investigator for Conservation Ecology and Ecosystem Services at the University of Southampton. He joined Biological Sciences and the Institute for Life Sciences in February 2013 as a Research Career Track Lecturer. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Zoology, Cambridge University.