THE COUNCIL
Protem-Council 2022-2023
METHINEE WONGWANICH RUMPAGAPORN
Thailand
Thailand
Entrepreneurship Education
Associate Professor and Chairman of Kasetsart Entreprenuership Education Program
Experienced in social entreprenuership, leaderships and management , ICT implementation and policy, digital technology, priject evaluation, and personality development skills
Nigeria
Water Supply and Sanitation, Public Sector Management
Special Assistant on Rural Water Supply and Sanitation to the Governor of Kaduna State in Nigeria.
Supervised provision of water and sanitation facilities to over 2 million people in rural communities and eradicating open defecation from 3 local government areas of the state in 2021.
Supervised several WASH projects funded by the Federal Government of Nigeria, UNICEF, World Bank, USAID, Qatar Foundation, etc.
Steering committee member of the upcoming 2022 World Toilet Summit in Nigeria.
KARL CAMILA
Philippines
Entrepreneurship Education
Utilizes the unique combination of his educational background, business experience both as an entrepreneur and as a senior executive/joint venture partner of one of the Philippines’ largest conglomerates
Stints in the academe and training fields, and his current profession as a business advisor for several MSMEs across the Southeast Asian region.
MATTHEW SARINO
Philippines
Philippines
Entrepreneurship Education
Utilizes the unique combination of his educational background, business experience both as an entrepreneur and as a senior executive/joint venture partner of one of the Philippines’ largest conglomerates
Stints in the academe and training fields, and his current profession as a business advisor for several MSMEs across the Southeast Asian region.
Venture and Ecosystem Building. Social entrepreneurship, startup management
Passionate and experienced in regional social innovation and startups.
Early employee in HK/TW markets for a Singapore series C startup and led a team of 23 members in business operations, marketing, product launch and establishing HR and finance practices
Co-founder of a social enterprise empowering ethnic minority youth in Hong Kong and spoke at UNESCO events.
Lead a regional impact community based in Taiwan, Hong Kong and the U.S. with over 1000+ members.
IRENE LOH
Singapore
Singapore
Business Services, Events Management and Finance Consultancy, SMEs
Building Singapore sustainability and food hubs and inclusion centres
Managing director of Ascent Consultancy
Experienced in risk consulting, business support services, events management
ELMER SORIANO
Leadership. Innovation. Impact.
Unlock leadership, innovation, and educational reform through university-hosted social labs
Enable global changemaking through transnational co-creation platforms
Reframe personal stories and public narratives through learning experience design
Liberate mindsets through Futures Thinking.
Incubate ventures and social programs for inclusive growth.
AKHMET ISHMUKHAMEDOV
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Business Strategy and Tech Entrepreneurship
Founder and CEO of Sauwat Education
Founder & Executive Director of Sauwat Strategy supporting SMEs to enter Central Asian and Southeast Asian markets
CHUA NING PEI
Creative. Wellbeing leader. Storyteller. Empowerment.
An accredited Soundwave® coach and wellbeing leader, passionate about storytelling, empowerment and impact, founded IAMinVISIBLE, an impact initiative to bring the inVisible into Visible.
Holds series of ‘I AM..’ affirmative portrait exhibitions and video stories to create a platform for everyone to be seen, heard, held and validated.
In 2022, she produced ‘DO YOU SEE ME?’, the first inaugural migrant’s storytelling exhibition showcase in Singapore featured 52 migrants and changemakers from 8 countries, garnered media features in Singapore and Asia
Former Managing Partner of a social enterprise where she had designed and co- facilitated over 300 empathy-based simulation workshops with fortune 500 companies, schools and communities to promote mental health, inclusion and empowerment, impacting over 21,000 individuals.
AGNIESZKA KOLTUN
Creative and Culture Creation
Agnieszka Koltun is currently Vice President of the Poland-Singapore Friendship Foundation registered in Poland.
Agnieszka is a writer and photographer, promoting culture of both countries - Singapore and Poland.