Tham Kok Wing is a practicing sustainability consultant who brings with him the benefit of deep knowledge, experience and grounding in ESG, Sustainability, Climate Risk and Carbon Management. He was most recently the director of a UK-based sustainability consultancy and spent more than four years prior to that as the Head of Industry Development, Sustainability and Decarbonisation Solutions at the Singapore Environment Council (SEC).

He has intimate knowledge of local and global developments covering the spectrum of policy frameworks, industry standards and practices, sustainability solutions, carbon management protocols and disclosure regimes. He has been involved in advocacy and relationship building, fronting key stakeholder engagements with industry, trade, business, civil society and regulatory agencies. He also had the benefit of working with local financial institutions (like OCBC, HSBC, etc.) on enabling green loans and sustainability-linked loans for local SMEs. He is familiar with TCFD, GFIT, MAS Asean Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance and UNEP FI Principles for Sustainable Insurance. Kok Wing is also conversant in sustainability reporting advising companies on GRI, SASB, SBTi and the evolving ISSB sustainability standards.

On top of that, he has a long and chequered track record in communications, public relations, risk and issues management, trust and relationship building having led global agencies like O&M, Fleishman Hillard, Edelman in senior leadership roles in Singapore and across the region. The unique mix of skills, knowledge and experience have enabled Kok Wing to deliver advisory, strategic and executive roles to help organizations and businesses overcome challenges and transform themselves successfully in a constantly evolving, complex, disruptive and uncertain world.

He is also a qualified WSQ ACPL (Advanced Certificate in Performance and Learning) trainer and has been key in developing and delivering a number of training curriculum, the most recent being SEC’s Sustainability Training Program that was supported by Enterprise Singapore (ESG) for senior and C-level executives that began in 2022. He served in adjunct lecturer roles with the Singapore Management University, the Institute of Public Relations and have been a speaker and panelist at NTU, polytechnics and think tank sessions. Kok Wing is also a pioneer Accredited Member of IPRS (the Institute of Public Relations Singapore) since early 2000.