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      It is our pleasure to extend an exclusive invitation for you to register and join us as an esteemed guest at KPMG’s Asia Pacific (ASPAC) Board Leadership Centre webinar titled “Navigating climate transition risks in a circular economy”.

      Circular economy model is gaining significant momentum globally, driven by various factors such as climate change, resource depletion, and pollution. At the same time, as the impacts of climate change become more pronounced, businesses and governments are recognizing the importance of understanding and mitigating climate-related risks. Circular economy provides a framework for operating sustainably and reducing environmental impact while climate risk assessments help businesses understand and prepare for the impacts of climate change. By identifying the synergies between circularity and climate change mitigation, forward-thinking ASPAC businesses can not only mitigate risks but also capitalize on opportunities for cost savings, innovation, and competitive differentiation, all of which contribute to long-term profitability and resilience.

      Join us at this exclusive Asia Pacific Board Leadership Centre Webinar as we explore the fundamentals of climate risk assessment with a focus on understanding both physical and transitional climate risks and opportunities, as well as the principles of a circular economy and the benefits that this could bring. Our distinguished business leaders and subject matter experts will share their thoughts and perspectives in the adoption of different practices across industries and sectors.

      Date

      Thursday 11 July 2024

      Time

      10:00 – 11:30 a.m. (Singapore, Manila, Kuala Lumpur)

      09:00 – 10:30 a.m. (Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta)

      Format

      On-line panel discussion (Cisco WebEx)

      Log-in details will be provided to registrants in a confirmation email.

      Please note that the session will be recorded.

      Audience

      Board members, Audit Committee Members and "C-level" executives.

      By invitation only.

      Agenda

      Time (SGT time)

      10:00 – 10:10 a.m.

      Topics

      Introduction & welcome
      Opening remarks

      Panelists/Moderators

      All BLC leaders

      10:10 – 10:25 a.m.

      Presentation: Circular Economy

      Sophie Hollingsworth
      Director, Circular Economy Services,
      KPMG in Australia

      10:25 – 10:40 a.m.

      Presentation: Climate transition risk

      Dr. Nick Moffatt
      Partner, Climate Change & Sustainability, 
      KPMG in Australia

      10:40 – 11:25 a.m.

      Panel discussion

      Moderator:

      • Dr. Nick Moffatt
        Partner, Climate Change & Sustainability,
        KPMG in Australia

      Panelists:

      • Chompan Kulnides
        Chief Sustainability Officer,
        Minor International Group
      • Jose Uy III
        Senior Vice President, Head of Corporate Affairs,
        Nestlé Philippines, Inc.
      • Dr. Yasmin Rasyid
        General Manager – Sustainability,
        Sime Darby Property

      11:25 – 11:30 a.m.

      Wrap up & closing remarks

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      Presenters

      Sophie Hollingsworth

      Director
      Circular Economy Services
      KPMG in Australia

      Dr. Nick Moffatt

      Partner
      Climate Change & Sustainability
      KPMG in Australia

      Dr. Nick Moffatt

      Partner
      Climate Change & Sustainability
      KPMG in Australia

      Chompan Kulnides

      Chief Sustainability Officer
      Minor International Group

      Jose Uy III

      Senior Vice President
      Head of Corporate Affairs
      Nestlé Philippines, Inc.

      Dr. Yasmin Rasyid

      General Manager – Sustainability
      Sime Darby Property

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      BLC leaders

      Harry Widjaja, Partner, Audit & Assurance Services, KPMG in Indonesia

      Harry Widjaja

      Partner, Audit & Assurance Services
      KPMG in Indonesia

      Harry is a partner in Audit & Assurance Services at KPMG Indonesia. He has more than 17 years of audit experience encompassing automotive, trading and services sectors.​ A member of the Indonesian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (IAPI), he is now looking after KPMG Indonesia’s Board Governance Forum.

      Mohd Khaidzir Shahari, Partner, KPMG in Malaysia

      Mohd Khaidzir Shahari

      Partner
      KPMG in Malaysia

      Khaidzir leads the Risk Consulting practice for KPMG in Malaysia, where he is also responsible for managing several business units including Governance, Risk and Compliance Services, Internal Audit and Compliance, and Enterprise Risk Management. Khaidzir has significant experience in compliance, internal audit, quality assessment review and risk management engagements for many Government and public-listed companies. He is well versed in the regulatory world, banking, finance and investment management, insurance, infrastructure, healthcare, consumer markets, port management, construction, and manufacturing. He has also assisted a number of clients who were seeking to list on the national stock exchange.

      Ma. Gracia (Monette) Diaz, Partner, Risk Management, KPMG in the Philippines

      Ma. Gracia (Monette) Diaz

      Partner, Risk Management
      KPMG in the Philippines

      Ma. Gracia (Monette) Diaz is the Head of Department of Professional Practice, and the Risk Management Partner of R.G. Manabat & Co., KPMG in the Philippines. She has been in a lead role in KPMG Asia Pacific Board Leadership Centre Audit Workstream group since 2014. Monette has more than 20 years of professional experience in financial reporting, audit, regulatory compliance and corporate governance, being the former General Accountant of the Philippine SEC. She is the Chairperson of the Committee of the Sustainability & Integrated Reporting of the Philippine Institute of CPAs (PICA) and is a member of the Philippine Interpretations Committee under the Financial Reporting Standards Council, and the PICA Ethics Committee. Also, she serves as the Executive Director of the Capital Market Development Council, a joint public sector and private sector advocacy group.

      Kristine I. Aguirre, Partner, Risk Consulting, KPMG in the Philippines

      Kristine I. Aguirre

      Partner, Risk Consulting
      KPMG in the Philippines

      Kristine I. Aguirre (KIA) currently serves as the Risk Consulting Services Partner at KPMG in the Philippines. Her experiences include more than 17 years in External Audit, Internal Audit, Internal Control over Financial Reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley Assistance Services, Enterprise Risk Management, Board Advisory, Forensic and Sustainability Services. She graduated from the University of Sto. Tomas (UST) with a degree in BS Accounting. KIA then went on to become a Certificate Public Accountant both in the Philippines and USA. She is also a Certified Internal Auditor.  Her representative clients include universal and commercial banks, multi-lateral banks, real estate, telecom, and insurance organizations.

      Irving Low, Partner, Head of Priority Client Coverage, KPMG in Singapore

      Irving Low

      Partner, Head of Priority Client Coverage
      KPMG in Singapore

      Irving is a partner in KPMG in Singapore and has been with KPMG for over 30 years, having worked in both the London and Singapore offices. As the Co-Head of Advisory (Singapore and Indonesia), he is responsible for the Advisory businesses and practices across Management Consulting and Risk Consulting. Irving sits in the firm’s Senior Executive Committee which oversees the firm’s strategic and operational excellence. His key area of practice is in corporate governance, where he is also the KPMG APAC Leader for Board Advisory Services. He has undertaken numerous corporate governance reviews for both public and private organisations in light of the renewed focus in this area.  

      Bunyarit Thanormcharoen, Partner, Audit & Assurance Services, KPMG in Thailand

      Bunyarit Thanormcharoen

      Partner, Audit & Assurance Services
      KPMG in Thailand

      Bunyarit is a partner in Audit & Assurance Services at KPMG Thailand. He has more than 27 years of experience in auditing clients in the consumer markets and industrial products sectors for both listed companies and private companies. His extensive experience covers a wide range of clients which includes Japanese clients, manufacturing sector and electronics. He also works relate to IFRS and ICOFR.​ Outside KPMG, Bunyarit is an instructor for the Thai Federation Accounting Profession and certain universities.

      Jamjuree Sathapornchaiwat, Director, Audit & Assurance Services, KPMG in Thailand

      Jamjuree Sathapornchaiwat

      Director, Audit & Assurance Services
      KPMG in Thailand

      Jamjuree is an Audit & Assurance Director at KPMG in Thailand. She has long-standing experience in audit with accumulated extensive experience in diverse industries such as manufacturing, electronics, automotive, retail and consumer product, logistics and real-estate, including multinational and listed companies. She is a Thai Certified Public Accountant (CPA), the education and technology committee of Thailand Federation of Accounting Professions (TFAC) and Certified Auditor under approval of Thai SEC. She has collaborated with multi-organizations in arranging public seminar for Board of Director in Asia-Pacific (ASPAC) and the Audit Committee Forum of listed companies in Thailand. 

      Tran Thanh Tam, Director, Head of Markets Group, KPMG in Vietnam and Cambodia

      Tran Thanh Tam

      Director, Head of Markets Group
      KPMG in Vietnam and Cambodia

      Tam oversees KPMG’s national Board Leadership Center initiative in Vietnam and Cambodia. In this capacity, he strives to strengthen the connection between board members, executive teams, and investors by helping them navigate the evolving governance landscape and ESG matters. 

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      Presenters' biographies

      Sophie Hollingsworth, Director, Circular Economy Services, KPMG in Australia

      Sophie Hollingsworth

      Director, Circular Economy Services
      KPMG in Australia

      Sophie leads KPMG’s Circular Economy services. She is passionate about improving sustainability outcomes and igniting forward focused circular business growth.

      Working with clients across the public and private sector, Sophie helps to co-develop and deploy circular strategies, utilise the principles of circularity to achieve net zero ambitions and enhance productivity and profitability, reduce resource costs, and catalyse circular innovation.

      Sophie is an environmental thought leader, having delivered talks at the World Bank / IMF Spring Meetings, United Nations and her work has been featured by National Geographic in a documentary series.

      Prior to joining KPMG, Sophie held an extended Fulbright Fellowship (sponsored by the United States Department of State) on Water Security in the Lake Chad Basin and was the Environment and Sustainability Lead for Global Citizen, where she worked on various sustainability engagements across the USA, Norway, the Philippines and sub-Saharan Africa.

      Outside of KPMG, Sophie is typically found on the water: sailing, surfing, snorkling or kayaking.

      Dr. Nick Moffatt, Partner, Climate Change & Sustainability, KPMG in Australia

      Dr. Nick Moffatt

      Partner, Climate Change & Sustainability
      KPMG in Australia

      Nick has led KPMG’s Western Australian Climate Change and Sustainability Services practice for more than 13 years, providing sustainability consulting services in areas including sustainability strategy, reporting, climate risk, net zero pathways, decarbonisation and processes governing environmental, social, health and safety risk

      Nick is a Chartered Chemical Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and is accredited as a greenhouse gas auditor in both Australia and Singapore.

      Prior to joining KPMG, Nick worked for over 20 years in industry in the UK and Australia in a range of chemicals and fertiliser manufacturing and international business development roles.  These roles included management of large scale hydrogen and ammonia manufacturing facilities.

      Chompan Kulnides, Chief Sustainability Officer, Minor International Group

      Chompan Kulnides

      Chief Sustainability Officer
      Minor International Group

      Chompan Kulnides is Chief Sustainability Officer at Minor International PCL. She is responsible for developing and driving Minor International’s sustainability strategy, long-term goals, practices, and reporting, in alignment with business strategy, stakeholders’ needs, the UN SDG’s.

      Prior to joining Minor in 2005, Chompan worked as a management consultant for Accenture and Kearney. At Minor, she worked in investment and finance functions for the Hotel and Lifestyle groups, and chairman’s office, before taking a role in sustainability.

      Jose Uy III, Senior Vice President, Head of Corporate Affairs, Nestlé Philippines, Inc.

      Jose Uy III

      Senior Vice President, Head of Corporate Affairs
      Nestlé Philippines, Inc.

      Jose “Joey” Uy III is Head of Corporate Affairs of Nestlé Philippines, Inc., leading the company’s Public Affairs, Communications, and Sustainability Group, after having held the position of Business Executive Officer of Lifestyle Beverages and Confectionery.

      Mr. Uy is concurrently a Member of the Board, Corporate Secretary, and Chair of the Regulatory and Scientific Affairs Committee of the Philippine Chamber of Food Manufacturers, Inc., the principal organization representing the country’s manufacturers and distributors of food products.

      He joined Nestlé in 1990 starting in sales, then transferring to marketing where he has contributed to various Nestlé brands in Dairy, Petcare, Food, Cereals, Confectionery, Ready-to-Drink and Dairy Culinary, as well as MILO and NESTEA. He was expatriated to Switzerland in 2001 as Marketing Advisor for the Petcare Strategic Business Unit, transferring to Indochina in 2003 as Commercial Manager for Petcare. He continued in a key role in Petcare while physically located in the Philippines as of July 2004. He first joined Nestlé Philippines’ NIMCom (Nestlé in the Market Committee) in 2005 as Business Executive Manager for Food and Culinary Milks.

      He brings 33 years of management and leadership experience to Corporate Affairs where he heads stakeholder relations and initiatives in creating shared value for Filipinos and their families, communities, and the planet.

      Dr. Yasmin Rasyid, General Manager – Sustainability, Sime Darby Property

      Dr. Yasmin Rasyid

      General Manager – Sustainability
      Sime Darby Property

      Dr. Yasmin holds a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Biotechnology and a PhD in Sustainability Science from Universiti Malaya.

      Dr. Yasmin brings with her over two decades of experience, with a career spanning multiple NGOs, including WWF and MENGO. Her diverse roles encompassed environmental management, community development, establishing strategic partnerships for sustainability, and social responsibility. Most recently, she served as the Sustainability Director for Lendlease Malaysia. Dr. Yasmin's professional journey has been marked by an unwavering commitment to sustainability, evident in her founding of EcoKnights in 2005. Her dedication to environmental and societal well-being mirrors our organisation's values and aspirations.

      Contact us

      Join us for this lively and informative webinar. For questions regarding the event, please contact the KPMG ASPAC BLC team.

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