Dato Dr Tan is the Chairman of SpringHill Management Ltd (www.springhiluk.com), a fund management company specializing in life sciences and social venture capital investing. He is the Founder Chairman of Inqo Investments, an impact investment company in South Africa and a partner in a number of social venture capital funds including Springhill Equity Partners (US), Novastar Ventures (East Africa) and Garden Impact Investments (Singapore).
Dato Dr Tan is a trustee of the John Templeton Foundation and the Centre for Enterprise, Markets & Ethics and a member of the advisory board of Johnson & Johnson Social Venture Fund and a Pro-Chancellor of Surrey University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK). He is a co-founder of the Transformational Business Network (UK) and the co-author of ‘Fighting Poverty through Enterprise’ and ‘Social Impact Investing: New agenda in fighting poverty’.
He was the founder Chairman of the NCI Cancer Hospital in Malaysia and the former chairman of Surrey & Hants Innovation Growth Team, a UK government organization supporting high growth companies in the south of England. He is a former board member of the APEC Life Science Forum and a former director of Saracens Rugby.
Jennifer is an experienced humanitarian who has spent the last decade in fragile states and humanitarian emergencies, in 12 countries, across three continents. Her focus has been on leadership, strategy and quality in humanitarian and development settings. Over the course of her career, Jennifer has led teams of up to 500 staff and managed budgets exceeding USD 70 million. She has a Master of Public Health from Tulane University (with a specialization in complex emergencies) and a Bachelor of History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Jennifer is currently the National Director for World Vision in Lesotho.
World Vision
World Vision is a Christian humanitarian, development and advocacy organization which works in 90 countries to address the root causes of poverty and injustice. Its community-based approach focuses on the most vulnerable children in each community. In 2019 alone, 20 million people, including 13 million children were helped in 76 humanitarian response across the globe; 3.4 million people gained access to clean water, including children who benefited from more 1000 water sources installed in schools. 90% of the more than 136,000 acutely malnourished children treated made a full recovery, helping to improve their health and growth; and, 218,000 women and men joined local savings groups, helping them to become more financially stable.
An Indian by descent, Hong Kong-born and raised Jeffery Andrews is one of the first ethnic minority registered social workers in Hong Kong. Committed to helping refugees and minority rights, in 2014 he travelled to the United Nations in Geneva to speak about the issues of segregated schools He has been included in numerous documentaries, news articles, TV programmes. He has received The Secretary for Home Affairs' Commendation awarded in recognition of his dedicated service and outstanding contributions to the enhancement of racial harmony and integration. Recently been selected as 2019 JCI Top Outstanding young persons and also Cathay Pacific’s ChangeMakers award. He has been with Christian Action’s center for refugees for 11 years as a social worker.
Vice President of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in charge of student and global affairs before she retired in 2018, and is now Hon. Professor of its Department of Applied Social Sciences. She has been actively involved in the development of social work and higher education in Hong Kong, Mainland China and the international arena. She was President of the International Association of Schools of Social Work from 2008 to 2012 and Founding Chair of the University Social Responsibility Network. In Hong Kong, she is Chairman of the Executive Board of the Keswick Foundation, Co-Chair of the Hong Kong Social Service Professional Alliance of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Hon. President of the Hong Kong Social Workers Association and Hon. Advisor of the Hong Kong Academy of Social Work. She was a member of the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong from 2012 to 2018. In the Chinese Mainland, she is Hon. Advisor of the China Association of Social Work Education and World Vision (China), Hon. Professor of Peking University, Sichuan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Xian Jiaotong University and China Women’s University. She was awarded Justice of Peace in 2002, and Bronze Bauhinia Star in 2008 by the Hong Kong SAR Government.
