Ms Nidhi Agarwal is a partner based in Oliver Wyman’s Singapore office. Nidhi joined Oliver Wyman in 2015 in Mumbai before relocating to Singapore in 2022. She has worked across a broad range of finance and risk topics and specialises in credit risk modelling, climate scenario analysis, and financial risk management. Most recently, Nidhi has been supporting leading financial institutions in Asia Pacific to meet regulatory expectations on climate risk.

Over the last three years, she helped build out the Climate and Sustainability practice in Asia Pacific along with her fellow peers. Nidhi has worked across finance & risk topics, specialising in credit risk modelling and climate risk. In addition to climate risk, Nidhi has been working with clients across a range of topics including developing credit rating models to support underwriting, implementing IFRS 9 programs for risk-based provisioning, and developing stress testing frameworks for capital-at-risk assessments. Before joining Oliver Wyman, Nidhi worked with Deloitte in India.

Mr Gaurav Kwatra is a partner based in Oliver Wyman’s Singapore office. He has 15 years of experience in Financial Services, consulting to leading clients across Oliver Wyman’s Credit and Climate Risk work in Asia Pacific.

Gaurav has been supporting leading Banks and Insurers in the region, across Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand on climate risk management and climate target setting, including running multiple training and capability building sessions for the Board, CEOs and senior management on the topic of ESG and climate change.

Lim Koon Huan is an experienced commercial litigator focussing on conventional and Islamic banking and finance disputes, insolvency, shareholders, corporate and civil disputes, acting for clients in various industries across multiple jurisdictions. She heads the firm's Trade Remedies Practice Group and also Co-Heads the Compliance Practice Group.

She also specialises in anti-corruption compliance work and fraud and asset recovery disputes.

Another key focus area of her practice is international trade disputes and trade remedies work. She has been involved in numerous trade petitions filed in both Malaysian and overseas, on the imposition of tariffs, anti-dumping and safeguards duties.

Key Practice Areas

• Corporate and Commercial Litigation
• Compliance and Investigations
• Trade Remedies
• Sanctions and Export Control
• Fraud and Asset Recovery
• Banking and Finance
• White-Collar Crimesy

Dr Kalpana Seethepalli is the Director of ESG for Asia Pacific at Deutsche Bank and leads the work on results frameworks, measurement, monitoring and sustainable finance taxonomies for ESG transactions. She brings over 21 years of sustainable finance experience across 15 countries over a long career with The World Bank Group and private equity markets. She is a global expert in design, measurement and reporting frameworks to achieve positive ESG impact through commercially viable investments. She has strengthened dialogue with NGOs and global civil society on ESG issues on live investments, and is a frequent speaker on sustainable financing at global fora, such as the World Economic Forum, convening private investors, advisors and thought leaders.

Dr Ismet Yusoff is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Malaysian Institute of Corporate Governance (MICG). He plays an active role in raising the corporate governance and sustainability standards of corporates in Malaysia by working closely with local and international stakeholders including regulators, standard setters, professional bodies and corporates.

Dr Ismet was instrumental in the formulation of Malaysia’s corporate governance and sustainability regulatory framework, best practices and strategic priorities. These include the development of the Malaysian Code on Corporate Governance, Malaysia’s Corporate Governance Strategic Priorities, Guidelines on Conduct of Directors of Listed Corporations and Their Subsidiaries, Guidelines on Corporate Governance for Capital Market Intermediaries and Bursa Malaysia Listing Requirements including Bursa Malaysia Sustainability Reporting Framework. He was also involved in the development of analytics and machine learning system for regulatory monitoring on governance disclosures, establishment of the Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia and other various industry-led initiatives on corporate governance and sustainability.

Dr Ismet was the Secretariat for the ASEAN Corporate Governance Initiatives under the ASEAN Capital Market Forum (ACMF). He was responsible for managing the ASEAN corporate governance scorecard assessments involving six ASEAN countries and organising the inaugural ASEAN Corporate Governance Awards in Manila, Philippines.

Dr Ismet graduated from the International Islamic University Malaysia. His doctoral thesis was on the effect of corporate governance and capital structures on performances of Malaysian public listed companies.

Amarjit Singh Chhina is the Chief Corporate Officer of Malaysian Resources Corporation Bhd (MRCB), a leading Property and Infrastructure Developer in Malaysia, where amongst his many other responsibilities, he is championing MRCB’s efforts in Sustainability.

Prior to joining MRCB, he was Executive Director of YTL E-Solutions Bhd while it was listed on Bursa Malaysia, and Chairman & CEO of its London listed subsidiary, Infoscreen Networks PLC. He also has 12 years of investment management and equity capital markets experience, having held positions in what were the UK’s leading investment banks. He was a UK Equity Fund Manager at Kleinwort Benson Investment Management (now known as Kleinwort Hambros) and UK Equity Building Materials & Construction Sector Analyst at Barclays de Zoete Wedd Securities Limited (now known as Credit Suisse) in London, and over a 5 year period from 1993 to 1998 was seconded to its offices in Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Singapore as an Associate Director, working on a number of large equity capital raisings and IPOs. He ended this phase of his career as Associate Director at HSBC Securities in Singapore.

Amarjit is an Independent Director of ABRDN Islamic Investments Sdn Bhd, sits on the Board of Trustees of Yayasan MRCB and on the National Advisory Panel of the United Nations Global Compact Network Malaysia & Brunei, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia.

Adam Ng leads the WWF’s Greening Financial Regulation Initiative (GFRI) in Asia-Pacific where he co-manages the Sustainable Financial Regulations and Central Bank Activities (SUSREG) Tracker and provides technical assistance and capacity building to central banks and financial supervisors. He is also Sustainable Finance Advisor at WWF-Malaysia and led the UK Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions (UKPACT) and Germany’s International Climate Initiative (IKI) programmes to support green finance initiatives and knowledge partnership in the country. WWF was recognised as the NGO leader in sustainable development (WWF international) by GlobeScan & ERM Sustainability Institute and JC3 Leader in Climate Action (WWF-Malaysia) in 2023.

Adam is a member of Paris Agreement Capital Transition Assessment (PACTA) methodology advisory committee and was member of CFA Institute Asia-Pacific Research Exchange Society Engagement Committee. Prior to WWF, he was Deputy Director (Research Management Centre) and Associate Professor at INCEIF, Head of CEO’s Office and Corporate Strategy at the International Islamic Liquidity Management Corporation set up by 11 central banks and 2 multilateral organisations. He started his career at the Central Bank of Malaysia and completed his postdoctoral fellowship as Securities Commission Malaysia-Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Scholar-in-Residence in Islamic Finance and Bachelor of Civil Law degree at University of Oxford.

Nadia S Hassan has been a business journalist and broadcaster for more than a decade. She has worked for well-known business news organisations including The Edge, BFM and the News Straits Times covering the dealings of Corporate Malaysia. During her time she has interviewed a number of high-ranking CEOs and notable figures including Tan Sri Tony Fernandes, Tan Sri Liew Kee Sin and former UK PM Boris Johnson. She was part of the team that brought AirAsia X Bhd successfully to market.

Aside from moderating events from The Edge, she has also moderated webinars and conferences for the Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia.

She is a graduate of the University of Cardiff, Wales with a BSc in Economics.