Chew Kheng Chuan
Chew Kheng Chuan (KC Chew) is an independent consultant in philanthropy and fund-raising. He was formerly the Chief University Advancement Officer of the Nanyang Technological University and, prior to that, served as the Vice President, Endowment and Institutional Development at the National University of Singapore. As a patron of the arts, KC served on the board of the independent arts organization, Substation, for 26 years, chairing its board for 20 years. He now serves on the board of ITI, the Intercultural Theatre Institute.
As the first Singaporean to be admitted to Harvard College, KC has been instrumental in promoting the interests of Harvard in Singapore and improving Singapore’s representation within the Harvard eco-system. For his continuous leadership of the Harvard Alumni Interviewing Committee for Singapore, the Harvard Alumni Association, in 2005, awarded him the Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Award, an honor reserved for alumni who have demonstrated dedicated service on local Harvard College schools and scholarships committees. KC was also called upon to be one of several co-founding members of the Harvard Club of Singapore, who were instrumental in steering the club through its conversion into a new club fit for the times. He served as President of the club from 2015 through 2019.
Carlo Pozzi
Carlo Pozzi is an experienced member of and special advisor to corporate boards and committees and possesses over 40 years of “skin in the game” entrepreneurship experience in the automotive industry in North America and EU. He has 93 international patents to his name, and was the former director of BANSEA Singapore, an Asian angel investor network. He has served as a mentor with Mentoring Program organised by the Harvard Business School Club of Singapore. Carlo graduated from Harvard Business School’s OPM & TGE programme.
Wang Gungwu
Professor Wang Gungwu is a recipient of the HCS Fellow Award and an internationally renowned historian famed for his scholarship on the history of the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia, as well as the history and civilisation of China and Southeast Asia. A graduate of the then Singapore campus of the University of Malaya and the holder of a doctorate degree from the University of London, he has served in leadership capacities in academia, including as the History Chair at UM in Kuala Lumpur, as faculty member of the Australian National University where he also served as Director of the Research of Pacific Studies, and as Vice-Chancellor of The University of Hong Kong. He was also the Director of the East Asian Institute (EAI) and served as its Chairman until 2018.
Professor Wang is also a member of the order of the Commander of the British Empire (CBE); former President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities; Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Science; Member of Academia Sinica; and Honorary Member of the Chinese Academy of Social Science. He was conferred the International Academic Prize, Fukuoka Asian Cultural Prizes and, in 2020, awarded the Tang Prize in Sinology.
Professor Wang’s thought leadership is encapsulated in the more than 20 books that he has written, including Renewal: the Chinese state and new global history (2015); Home is not here (2018); China Reconnects: Joining a deep-rooted past to a new world order (2019); and Home is where we are (2020) (co-authored with Margaret Wang).
Sasitharan, Sasi
Sasitharan, Sasi, is a recipient of the HCS Fellow Award, and Co-Founder and Director of the Intercultural Theatre Institute. ITI is a practice-based, full-time actor training conservatory, and one of the most reputable theatre schools in the world. Sasi and the late Kuo Pao Kun conceived and inaugurated ITI in 2000. He was Artistic Director of Substation (1995-2000), Singapore’s only independent arts centre, and was the Theatre and Visual Arts critic of The Straits Times (1988-1995). From1983 to ‘88, he taught Philosophy at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Sasi has authored articles ranging from commentaries and essays to reviews of performances and exhibitions, and international catalogue texts. He regularly speaks at conferences on arts, education and creativity. For over 45 years he has been a theatre practitioner, working as actor, performer, director, producer, and teacher. In 2012 he received the Cultural Medallion, Singapore’s highest award for artists. In May 2022, Sasi received the NUS’ FASS Distinguished Arts and Social Sciences Alumni Award.
Rebecca Woo
Growing up between Hong Kong and the United States, and now a fixture in Singapore for the last fifteen years, Rebecca is a graduate of Harvard University (AB, 1989) and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University (MA, 1990). She was the President of the Harvard University Alumni Association in Singapore for four years, an Asian Director for the Harvard Alumni Association and a member of the board of directors of the Harvard Alumni for Global Women’s Empowerment. Currently she continues to be actively invovled with alumni affairs through her position on the Executive Committee of the Harvard Alumni Association.
Professionally, Rebecca has over two decades of experience in the finance industry; largely equity research and sales with major global institutions (Citi, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Lehman) and anchors a deep understanding of global financial markets. Her insight into companies has been built through her long contribution as senior advisor and board member on family and other businesses ranging from pharmaceuticals, digital financial services, robo-advisors and sustainable resources. She is a Principal of Tantallon Private Office in Singapore.